Lesson 25: The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Social, Political, and Economic Organization THE DATE OF THE KNOWN LINEAR B TEXTS THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE DECIPHERMENT OF LINEAR B AS GREEK THE MYCENAEAN SOCIAL ORDER WA-NA-KA RA-WA-KE-TA TE-RE-TA (telestas) KA-MA-E-U E-QE-TA KE-RO-SI-JA DA-MO KO-RE-TE, PO-RO-KO-RE-TE DO-E-RO, DO-E-RA CONCLUSIONS *.*.*.*)*()*()*()*()*()The Linear B Tablets and ...

LINGUIST List 9.1719 Fri Dec 4 1998 All: Obituary John Chadwick Editor for this issue: Brett Churchill brett@linguistlist.org Directory Michael Everson, John Chadwick, 1920-1998 Message 1: John Chadwick, 1920-1998 Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:23:13 +0000 From: Michael Everson everson@indigo.ie Subject: John Chadwick, 1920-1998 The ancient Greeks had a pictogram for it Obituary by Dan van der ...

EIUO O E C C - KNOSSOS CRETE PREHISTORIC WRITINGS IN GREECE LINEAR A , LINEAR B , CRETAN HIEROGLYPHICS At first, the Minoans were using a kind of writing which was similar to the hieroglyphics of Egypt. Each letter is symbolised with an animal or object. Later, they were using Linear A and in the end, after 1450 BC when the Achaians dominated, Linear B was instituted. M. Ventris, an Englishman, ...

Prehistoric documents from Crete Linear A Linear B All these objects are examples of early writing from Knossos on Crete. The upper left object is a clay label which would have been tied to another object, with an early Cretan hieroglyphic script (predecessor to Linear A). On the upper right is a clay tablet with Linear A script, which has never been translated. The lower object is a tablet ...