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PY Ta 641, sometimes known as the Tripod Tablet, [1] is a Mycenaean clay tablet inscribed in Linear B, currently displayed in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. [1] Discovered in the so-called "Archives Complex" of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Messenia in June 1952 by the American archaeologist Carl Blegen , it has been described ...
The Thebes tablets were discussed at a linguist symposium held in Vienna December 5–6, 2002, the results of which have been published. [8] Günter Neumann (pp. 125–138) argues that the animals in the Thebes tablets are not sacred or "divine" but animals that would naturally be part of everyday life for both Mycenaean and later Greeks.
The language is named after Mycenae, one of the major centres of Mycenaean Greece. The tablets long remained undeciphered, and many languages were suggested for them, until Michael Ventris, building on the extensive work of Alice Kober, deciphered the script in 1952. [2] The texts on the tablets are mostly lists and inventories.
Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC. [1] It represents the first advanced and distinctively Greek civilization in mainland Greece with its palatial states, urban organization, works of art, and writing system.
Amphora with Palm Trees, Mycenaean, 15th century BC. From Mycenaean cemetery at Argive Deiras. NAMA 7107. Date: 12 March 2009, 05:31: Source: Amphora with Palm Trees, Mycenaean, 15th century BC. Author: Sharon Mollerus
Greece has uncovered ancient ruins that may be linked to Sparta in the time of the ancient Mycenaean civilization.
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Between 1969 and 1975, the expedition carried out the excavation of Nichoria, a Mycenaean and Early Iron Age site in southern Messenia, which proved a significant source of information about the end of the Bronze Age in Greece, as well as a proving ground and case study for the use of scientific, multi-disciplinary methods in archaeological ...