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Linear B
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ancient syllabary for Mycenaean Greek used ca. 1400 BCE – 1200 BCE
Linear B is an ancient writing system used to write Mycenaean Greek roughly between 1400 and 1200 BCE. It matters because it provides crucial evidence of one of the earliest forms of the Greek language and helps scholars understand the civilization that preceded classical Greece.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Linear B is referenced by 1,531 other articles, and connects out to Georgian scripts, Ulu scripts and cuneiform.
It sits within the topics 1900 archaeological discoveries, 2nd-millennium BC introductions and Aegean languages in the Bronze Age.
Its subject is documented across 55 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- logographic writing system
- Subclass of
- Aegean scripts
- Follows
- Linear A
- Based on
- Linear A
- Image
- NAMA Linear B tablet of Pylos.jpg
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- facet of
- Mycenaean Greek
- Commons category
- Linear B
- discoverer or inventor
- Arthur Evans
- language of work or name
- Mycenaean Greek
- Unicode range
- U+10100-1013F
- name
- linéaire B
- end time
- 1200-00-00
- inception
- 1450-00-00
- culture
- Mycenaean Greece
- topic's main category
- Category:Linear B
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