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Linear B

A syllabic script used in Mycenaean Greek documents chiefly from Crete and Pylos, mostly from the 14th to the 12th century b.c.

Linear B

(Linguistics / Languages) an ancient system of writing, apparently a modified form of Linear A, found on clay tablets and jars of the second millennium bc The earliest excavated examples, dating from about 1400, came from Knossos, in Crete, but all the later finds are at Pylos and Mycenae on the Greek mainland, dating from the 14th-12th centuries. The script is generally accepted as being an early representation of Mycenaean Greek

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Linear B - a syllabic script used in Greece in the 13th century B.C.

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