Nestor’s Palace – 7

Copy of a clay tablet incised with Linear B script

From the information signage in the Nestor’s Palace at Pylos Archaeological site.

The Linear B tablet records a list of supplies for a festival, or initiation of the king (“Στις Σφαγιάνες με την ευκαιρία της ῾μύησης῾ του βασιλιά” – “At Sphagianes on the occasion o the king’s ‘initiation’”), followed by a list of supplies, including food, livestock, wine, and cloth: “115 liters of flour; 211 liters of olives; … 586 liters of wine;”

Mycenaean era (1750 – 1050 BCE). Peloponnese, Greece.