Linear B script was used by the Mycenaeans in the mainland and in Crete during the later Minoan times. Linear B was deciphered in 1953 and shown to be a primitive form of Greek. Most of the tablets found have been translated to contain inventories of goods in storage, and do shed some indirect light into the life of a prosperous society.

Exhibited at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete, Greece.