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LM IIIB Knossos and its relations to Kydonia

Birgitta P. Hallager Stockholm 2025

LM IIIB Knossos and its relations to Kydonia The date of the de­struc­tion of the palace at Knos­sos on Crete has been one of the key problems of Aegean pre­his­tory since the palace was ex­ca­vated at the be­gin­ning of the 20th cen­tury. The ex­ca­va­tor Arthur Evans ar­gued for an LM II date as he pre­sumed that the inscribed tablets found in the palace de­struc­tion lay­ers must have been writ­ten by the peo­ple who had pro­duced the large and richly adorned Palace Style jars which he dated to the LM II pe­riod.

The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia. Vol. IV. The Inscribed Documents

Emmett L. Bennett Jr., José L. Melena, Dimitri Nakassis, Jean-Pierre Olivier & Thomas G. Palaima (eds) Columbus 2025

The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia. Vol. IV. The Inscribed Documents In 1939, on the first day of excavation on a hill in western Messenia, Carl W. Blegen uncovered a Mycenaean palace that he called The Palace of Nestor. Its archives contained clay tablets inscribed in the so-called Linear B script, a syllabary employed to record the Greek language.