Linear B

a Minoan syllabic script inscribed on clay tablets discovered at Knossos, Crete, deciphered and found to contain an archaic form of Greek

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noun
A syllabic script used in Mycenaean Greek documents chiefly from Crete and Pylos, mostly from the 14th to the 12th century B.C.
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