Linear B Script
- Title
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Linear B Script
- LC Subject
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Writing
- Repository
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British Museum
- Alternative
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Tablet
- Creator
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unknown
- Photographer
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Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
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unknown Minoan (artist)
- Description
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Clay tablet inscribed with Linear B script, recording offerings of oil to a number of religious personnel and deities. --The British Museum
Ventris, M; Chadwick, J, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1956; Chadwick, J; Godart, L; Killen, J T; Olivier, J-P; Sacconi, A; Sakellarakis, I A, Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, I, I, Cambridge/Rome, Cambridge University Press/Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1986
- View
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Front
- Coverage
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Crete, Greece (creation)
Room of the Clay Chest, Knossós, Crete, Greece (discovery)
- Temporal
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1400-1300 BCE
- Subject
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Busts, TCs, Stelar, etc.
Linear B, Dipylon Jug, Hymn Apollo, Rosetta Stone
- Style Period
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Late Minoan IIIA
- Work Type
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tablets (information artifacts)
- Date
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-1400/-1300
- Identifier
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Lowenstam_VRC_07620
- Item Locator
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Box 17, Section 25
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
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University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
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Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Measurements
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Height: 3.9 cm Length: 15.5 cm Width: 1.1 cm Weight: 112 g
- Material
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clay | incised
- Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
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University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
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Minoan
- Id Current Repository
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1910,0423.1