Museums and Institutions

  • Hellenic Ministry of Culture
  • Agios Nikolaos Archaeological Museum
  • Archaeology Department, University College, London
  • Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  • British Museum, London
  • Chaironeia Archaeological Museum
  • Chora Archaeological Museum
  • Chania Archaeological Museum
  • Delphi Archaeological Museum
  • Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati
  • Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  • Eleusis Archaeological Museum
  • Ephorate of Antiquities of Argolida
  • Ephorate of Antiquities of Heraklion
  • Ephorate of Antiquities of Magnesia
  • Herakleion Archaeological Museum
  • Kanellopoulos Collection, Athens
  • Knossos Stratigraphical Museum
  • Manchester Museum
  • Mycenae Archaeological Museum
  • Nafplion Archaeological Museum
  • National Archaeological Museum, Athens
  • Rethymno Archaeological Museum
  • Thebes Archaeological Museum
  • Volos Archaeological Museum

Collaborations

Digitisation of photographic materials

  • Barbara Foschi (CNR-ISPC)

Encoding and Data Entry

  • Claudia Alonso Moreno (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) / Knossos texts (Sk – Xf)

Topographical information / findspots

  • Sara Lopez (Sapienza, Università di Roma) / Inscribed vases from Greek Mainland

Text translations and linguistic commentary [work in progress]

  • Michele Bianconi (University of Oxford)

Sources

Texts

Unless otherwise stated, texts, notes, and information on scribes and findspots are from the following editions:

  • A. Sacconi, Corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B, Roma 1974.
  • J. L. Melena, J.-P. Olivier, TITHEMY. The Tablets and Nodules in Linear B from Tiryns, Thebes and Mycenae. A Revised Transliteration, Salamanca 1991.
  • L. Godart, A. Sacconi, Supplemento al corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B, Pisa – Roma 2017.
  • J. L. Melena (with the collaboration of R. J. Firth), The Knossos Tablets. Sixth Edition, Philadelphia 2019.
  • J.-P. Olivier, M. Del Freo, ‘The Pylos Tablets Transcribed’. Deuxième édition, Padova 2020.
Nota Bene:
  1. when KT6 findspots differ from CoMIK, the relevant bibliography is quoted: the Minos articles in the Tools section are reproduced with the kind permission of the Universidad de Salamanca;
  2. the ‘X’ findspots of the Pylos Archives Complex have been systematically reclassified as X0 (grid squares 50, 91), X1 (grid squares 44, 45, 54, 55, 83, 84) and X2 (grid squares 15, 24, 25, 34, 35) [for the distinction between X0, X1 and X2, see R. J. Firth in Aegean Scripts, Rome 2017, p. 58].

Dactyloscopic information

Dactyloscopic information on the Pylos and Knossos texts is taken from:

  • K.-E. Sjöquist, P. Åström, Pylos: Palmprints and Palmleaves, Göteborg 1985.
  • K.-E. Sjöquist, P. Åström, Knossos: Keepers and Kneaders, Göteborg 1991.

Chronologies

Chronologies are taken either from individual editions or specific contributions and are expressed in terms of ceramic phases. So, when they coincide, they do not necessarily indicate contemporaneity. The chronologies of the texts from Knossos are subject to intense debate. Here it has been decided to assign the documents from the Room of Chariot Tablets to LM II-IIIA following the suggestion of J.M. Driessen (An Early Destruction in the Mycenaean Palace at Knossos, Leuven 1990; The Scribes of the Room of the Chariot Tablets at Knossos, Salamanca 2000). The other Knossos documents (with known findspots) are assigned generically to LM IIIA2. Chronologies that can only be deduced from scribal hands are not indicated.

Photographs

  1. Armenoi

    • L. Godart, A. Sacconi, Supplemento al corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B, Pisa – Roma 2017.

  2. Dimini

    • V. Adrymi-Sismani, L. Godart, ASAtene 83 (2005), p. 60-62, fig. 7-8.

  3. Eleusis

    • A. Sacconi, Corpus delle iscrizioni in lineare B di Micene, Roma 1974.

  4. Gla

    • S. Iakovidis, Ariadne 5 (1989), p. 39-43, tav. 2.

  5. Iklaina

    • M. B. Cosmopoulos, PAE 165 (2010), pl. 30.

  6. Khania

    • E. Hallager, in GSE IV :1, Stockholm 2011, pl. 270-279.

  7. Knossos

    • J. Chadwick, L. Godart, J. T. Killen, J.-P. Olivier, A. Sacconi, I. Sakellarakis, Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, 4 vols., Cambridge – Pisa – Roma 1986-1998. [CNR original photographs]
    • The PA-I-TO Epigraphic Project (RTI photos)

  8. Kreusis

    • A. Sacconi, Corpus delle iscrizioni in lineare B di Micene, Roma 1974.

  9. Malia

    • L. Godart, A. Sacconi, Supplemento al corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B, Pisa – Roma 2017.
    • J. Driessen, A. Farnoux, C. Langohr, in Festschrift Niemeier, Bonn 2015, p. 38-39, fig. 6, 9.

  10. Mamelouko

    • A. Sacconi, Corpus delle iscrizioni in lineare B di Micene, Roma 1974.

  11. Medeon

    • CMS V.2, Nr. 415.

  12. Midea

    • K. Demakopoulou, N. Divari-Valakou, Minos 27-28 (1992-93), p. 303-305, pl. I-II.
    • G. Walberg, in Atti del secondo congresso internazionale di Micenologia, vol. III, Roma 1996, p. 1336-1337, fig. 2-4.
    • K. Demakopoulou, N. Divari-Valakou, Minos 29-30 (1994-95), p. 325-326, pl. IB.
    • K. Demakopoulou, N. Divari-Valakou, Minos 29-30 (1994-95), p. 326-327, pl. IIA-B.
    • G. Walberg, Minos 31-32 (1996-1997), p. 133-134, pl. I.
    • K. Demakopoulou, N. Divari-Valakou, A.-L. Schallin, G. Ekroth, A. Lindblom, M. Nilsson, L. Sjögren, OAth 27 (2002), p. 53-54, fig. 85-87.

  13. Mycenae

    • A. Sacconi, Corpus delle iscrizioni in lineare B di Micene, Roma 1974.
    • A. Sacconi, Corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B, Roma 1974.
    • V. Georgiev, Kadmos 1976, p. 95-96, pl. 1.
    • W. Müller, J.-P. Olivier, I. Pini, AA (1998), p. 42, fig. 11.
    • Ergon 2008, p. 37, fig. 37.
    • S. Iakovidis, L. Godart, A. Sacconi, Pasiphae 6 (2012), p. 49-56.

  14. Orchomenos

    • A. Sacconi, Corpus delle iscrizioni in lineare B di Micene, Roma 1974.

  15. Prinias

    • L. Godart, A. Sacconi, Supplemento al corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B, Pisa – Roma 2017

  16. Pylos

    • Emile Seraphis’ photographs 1969 (An 1 – Xn 1478)*.
    • The Pylos Digital Tablets Project (Ab 559, An 1, An 435, Ea 809, Eb 903, Ed 411, Ep 613, Eq 36, Ma 120, Sh 740, Un 1177, Un 1185, Un 1320, Un 1322, Wo 1247, Wp 1327, Wr 1333, Wr 1480 – Xa 1587)**.
      • *Courtesy of The Palace of Nestor Excavations, Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati.
      **Courtesy of The Pylos Digital Tablets Project, and The Palace of Nestor Excavations, Department of Classics University of Cincinnati.
    Nota Bene:
    • for fragment joins since 1992, see ARN (2019-2020) and PofN IV (forthcoming).

  17. Sissi

    • J. Driessen, in Aegis VI, Louvain 2012, p. 24, fig. 1.5.

  18. Thebes

    • A. Sacconi, Corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B, Roma 1974.
    • V. L. Aravantinos, I. Fappas, L. Godart, A. Sacconi, Pasiphae 8 (2014), p. 19-21, fig. 1a-6a.
    • V. L. Aravantinos, I. Fappas, L. Godart, A. Sacconi, Pasiphae 12 (2018), p. 221-223, fig. 1.

  19. Tiryns

    • A. Sacconi, Corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B, Roma 1974.
    • L. Godart, J.-P. Olivier, in Tiryns VIII, Mainz 1975, p. 37-53, pl. 41.
    • E. Deilaki-Protonotariou, A. Sacconi, PP 33 (1978), p. 423-424.
    • U. Naumann, L. Godart, J.-P. Olivier, BCH 101 (1977), p. 229-234.
    • L. Godart, J.-P. Olivier, AA (1979), p. 450-458.
    • L. Godart, J.T. Killen, J.-P. Olivier, AA (1979), p. 457-458, fig. 3.
    • L. Godart, J. T. Killen, J.-P. Olivier, AA (1983), p. 413-426.
    • J.-P. Olivier, AA (1988), p. 253-268.

  20. Volos

    • Courtesy E. Skafida and A. Karnava.

Maps

  1. Dimini

    • Map adapted from: V. Adrymi-Sismani, "Le palais de Iolkos et sa destruction”, BCH 128-129 (2004), p. 3, fig. 2.

  2. Eleusis

    • Map adapted from: Wikimedia Commons, Plan_of_Eleusis_081170.jpg (Zdenek Kratochvil), license CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed.

  3. Gla

    • Map adapted from: S. E. Iakovidis, Glas II. I Anaskafi 1981-1991, BAE 173, Athina 1998, p. 3, fig .2.

  4. Iklaina

    • Map adapted from: M. B. Cosmopoulos, “The Monumental Architecture of Iklaina”, in B. Eder, M. Zavadil (eds.), (Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece: International Discussions in Mycenaean Archaeology, Athens, 5-8 October, 2016, Vienna 2021, p. 276, fig. 3.

  5. Khania

    • Map adapted from: E. Hallager, OAth 11 (1975), p. 54, fig. 1; GSE IV:1, p. 30, fig. 1.
    • M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki, Pasiphae 16 (2022), p. 38, fig. 1.

  6. Knossos

    • Map adapted from: J. D. S. Pendlebury, A Handbook to the Palace of Minos. Knossos with Its Dependencies, London 1954, fig. 9 (Palace).
    • Map adapted from: E. Hatzaki, Knossos: The Little Palace, London 2005, Pl. 2 (Little Palace and Unexplored Mansion).
    • Map adapted from: J. Boardman, On the Knossos tablets: The Date of the Knossos Tablets, Oxford 1963, p. 68, fig. 14 (Arsenal).

  7. Kreusis

    • Map adapted from: J. Morin, G. Gauvin, “The Prehistoric Occupation at the Site of Kastro Livadhostrou Near Ancient Kreusis, South-West Boiotia”, in J. M. Fossey (ed.), Proceedings of the 8th International. Conference on Boiotian Antiquities, Loyola University of Chicago, 24-26 May 1995, Boeotia Antiqua 6, Amsterdam 1996, p. 23, fig. 3.2.

  8. Malia

    • Map adapted from: J. Driessen, A. Farnoux, C. Langohr, in Festschrift Niemeier, Bonn 2015, p. 37, fig. 1.

  9. Midea

    • Map adapted from: K. Demakopoulou, N. Divari-Valakou, A.-L. Schallin, G. Ekroth, A. Lindblom, M. Nilsson, L. Sjögren, “Excavations in Midea 2000 and 2001”, OAth 27 (2002), p. 42, fig. 41.

  10. Mycenae

    • Map adapted from: R. Treuil, P. Darcque, J.-C. Poursat, G. Touchais, Les civilisations égéennes du néolithique et de l'âge du bronze. Deuxième édition refondue, Paris 2008, fig. 50.

  11. Pylos

    • Maps adapted from: PofN I.1, Key plan (J. Travlos 1964).
    • Maps adapted from: PofN I.2, fig. 416 (J. Travlos 1960).
      • Courtesy of The Palace of Nestor Excavations, The Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati.

  12. Sissi

    • Courtesy J. Driessen.

  13. Tiryns

    • Map adapted from: Tiryns. Forschungen und Berichte, Band VI, Mainz am Rhein 1973, pl. 9 (Prophitis Elias Cemetery).
    • Map adapted from: Tiryns. Forschungen und Berichte, Band XI, Mainz am Rhein 1990, Karte 8 “Tiryns” (Citadel and Lower Town).

  14. Volos

    • Map adapted from: D. Theocharis, PAE 111 (1956), p. 122, fig. 1.