another Linear B tablet from Knossos illustrating the syllabogram JU, KN 21 J i 14:
This tablet from Knossos deals with barley stalks in conjunction with the syllabogram JU, which clearly is also a crop, but which kind we do not know. Wine is also mentioned on this tablet. So we may very well be dealing with barley wine, which of course is what the Mycenaeans and ancient Greeks called beer. So now we have a hint as to what JU might mean, i.e. hops or a draught, but my bet is on the former.
another Linear B tablet from Knossos illustrating the syllabogram JU, KN 21 J i 14
Sappho, spelled (in the dialect spoken by the poet) Psappho, (born c. 610, Lesbos, Greece — died c. 570 BCE). A lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style.
Her language contains elements from Aeolic vernacular and poetic tradition, with traces of epic vocabulary familiar to readers of Homer. She has the ability to judge critically her own ecstasies and grief, and her emotions lose nothing of their force by being recollected in tranquillity.
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2 responses to “another Linear B tablet from Knossos illustrating the syllabogram JU, KN 21 J i 14”
Interesting. Thanks Richard.
Indeed, a new syllabogram I missed before…