Museums and Institutions

  • Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
  • National Archaeological Museum, Athens
  • Herakleion Archaeological Museum
  • Ephorate of Antiquities of Argolida, Nafplio
  • Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale (CNR)
  • Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo (CNR)
  • UMR 7041 ArScAn, Équipe Protohistoire égéenne (CNRS)

Collaborations

Encoding and Data Entry

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

Semantic annotation

in progress

  • Claudia Alonso Moreno (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  • Mario Iodice (Università Cattolica di Milano)
  • Rachele Pierini (Università di Bologna)

Digitisation of photographic materials

  • Barbara Foschi (CNR-ISPC)

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.
  • S. Iakovidis, L. Godart, A. Sacconi, “Les inscriptions en linéaire B découvertes dans la ‘Maison de Petsas’ à Mycènes”, Pasiphae 6 (2012), pp. 47-57.
  • J. L. Melena (with the collaboration of R. J. Firth), The Knossos Tablets. Sixth Edition, Philadelphia 2019.

    • N.B. 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 Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca.

Dactyloscopic information

Dactyloscopic information on the Knossos texts is taken from:

  • 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 Room of Chariot Tablets documents to LM II-IIIA following the suggestion by 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). With few exceptions, the other Knossos documents (with known findspots) are generically assigned to LM IIIA2.

Photographs

1. Knossos

  • 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]

2. 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.

3. Tiryns

  • 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.

4. Midea

  • K. Demakopoulou - N. Divari-Valakou, Minos 27-28 (1992-93), p. 303-305, pl. I-II.
  • G. Walberg, Atti del secondo congresso internazionale di Micenologia, vol. III, Roma 1996, p. 1336-1337, figs. 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.

Site maps

1. 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).

2. 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.

3. 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).

4. 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.