What 𐂚 means
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What did 𐂚 mean in Linear B records?
It is the Linear B sign conventionally read as bronze.
Linear B was adapted to record Mycenaean Greek, the Greek used in palace administration. It grew from Linear A, an earlier Cretan writing system, within a Cretan tradition influenced by writing from Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean. Knossos’s Room of the Chariot Tablets is one of the earliest surviving Linear B archives, from about 1400–1200 BCE.
At Pylos, 140/AES appears in records of bronze allocated to smiths. In vessel inventories, it marks the vessel’s material; the sign can also qualify an ingot entry. The related Linear B word is transcribed *ka-ko; it can refer to copper or a copper alloy, so “bronze” is a conventional label rather than an exact recipe.
A specialist reference to Linear B and Mycenaean palace accounting.
Without context, a reader may not recognize this as a bronze label.
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3 readingsBronze set aside as raw metal for a smith.
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1Questions people ask
2Why does 𐂚 show as a box?
A box is a display fallback: the character is still 𐂚, while its visible form depends on a font with Linear B support.
Does 𐂚 always identify bronze rather than copper?
No. “Bronze” is its conventional label, but the related Linear B word transcribed ka-ko can refer to copper or a copper alloy. The sign alone does not specify the exact material.
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- Also called
- AES · *140
- Search it as
- linear b bronze · b140 · bronze sign · linear b copper · pylos bronze · mycenaean
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐂚\1009ACodes and encoding1 code points
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