Nestor's Palace - 7
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Copy of a clay tablet incised with Linear B script
Nestor's Palace - 7

Nestor's Palace (1300 - 1250 BCE) in Pylos: Copy of a clay tablet incised with Linear B script, with its translation.

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.

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Bronze Age Inscriptions Linear B Mycenaean Nestor Palace Peloponnese Reconstructions and Plans
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