Linear B Ideogram B178

B178 is a catalog number, not an object translation. The Unicode 18.0 list gives it only the number; ideograms receive meaning-based names when their readings are generally agreed.

What did Linear B ideograms do?

They helped palace clerks count goods. Linear B paired syllable signs, which spell words, with ideograms marking commodities on clay tablets.

Linear B adapted earlier Linear A, a Cretan script for a language still undeciphered, to write Mycenaean Greek. As of 2020, the Room of the Chariot Tablets at Knossos was identified as the earliest Linear B archive on Crete; its absolute date remains debated.