DESK CASE L. Linear B tablet fragment

Accession Number AN1896-1908.AE.2031
Year c. 1350 BCE
Dimensions 5.5 cm x 4.7 cm
Medium clay
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Fragment of a Linear B tablet detailing bull’s head rhyta and straight-sided cups. Evans did not decipher Linear B but recognised the subject because of the pictorial ideograms.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1909. Scripta Minoa I, p. 52, fig. 28
Evans, Arthur. 1928. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, II, p. 533, fig. 336
Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 27
Evans, Arthur. 1952. Scripta Minoa II, no. 872, pl. xli