‘MINOAN’ OR ‘MYCENAEAN’ WINE? OBSERVATIONS ON AN LM IIIA INSCRIBED PITHOS FROM KNOSSOS
Maurizio Del Freo, Julien Zurbach, with a note by Kostis S. Christakis
This article discusses the GORILA KN Zb <36> and Zb <37> inscriptions which are now identified with the logograms incised on one of the pithoi from the Ninth West Magazine of the Knossos palace. Based on palaeographic observations we suggest that the pithos is not inscribed in Linear A but in Linear B.
Maurizio Del Freo is Research Director at the Institute of Heritage Science, National Research Council of Italy (CNR).
Julien Zurbach is Maître de conférences en histoire grecque, Ecole Normale Supérieure and Researcher attached to UMR 8546 AOROC (Paris).
Kostis S. Christakis is Curator at the Knossos Research Centre of the British School at Athens.
Full Bibliographic Reference
Del Freo M., Zurbach J., with a note by Kostis S. Christakis, ‘Minoan’ or ‘Mycenaean’ Wine? Observations on an LM IIIA Inscribed Pithos from Knossos, SMEA NS 9, 2023, 99-106.
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Keywords
Knossos; Linear A; Linear B; Wine logograms; Cretan Bronze Age pithoi
