Linear B Script
- Title
- Linear B Script
- LC Subject
- Writing
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Tablet
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Minoan (artist)
- Description
- 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
- Front
- Coverage
- Crete, Greece (creation) Room of the Clay Chest, Knossós, Crete, Greece (discovery)
- Temporal
- 1400-1300 BCE
- Subject
- Busts, TCs, Stelar, etc. Linear B, Dipylon Jug, Hymn Apollo, Rosetta Stone
- Style Period
- Late Minoan IIIA
- Work Type
- tablets (information artifacts)
- Date
- -1400/-1300
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_07620
- Item Locator
- Box 17, Section 25
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 3.9 cm Length: 15.5 cm Width: 1.1 cm Weight: 112 g
- Material
- clay | incised
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Minoan
- Id Current Repository
- 1910,0423.1
