What 𐃍 means
A chariot chassis — the vehicle's body kept without its wheels.
Linear B grew out of the older, still-undeciphered Linear A rather than being invented from scratch. It mixed syllabic signs, which spell sounds, with ideograms like this one, which picture the thing itself; Mycenaean palaces used it on clay tablets to record an early form of Greek. One of the earliest surviving Linear B deposits is the Room of Chariot Tablets at Knossos, placed in Late Minoan II–IIIA1; absolute dating remains debated. That date belongs to the deposit, not to a securely isolated first occurrence of B241.
On the chariot tablets the scribes counted parts, not pictures: B240 is the complete chariot with wheels, B241 marks the chariot without its wheels, B242 is the bare frame, and B243 the wheel, tallied on its own. The sign records an inventory state, not a generic vehicle or an emblem.
Archival and specialist; read it as a Linear B reference, not a modern vehicle pictograph.
Need the complete chariot? That's B240 — B241 is the wheel-less one.
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Who writes 𐃍
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3Why does 𐃍 show as a box on some devices?
A missing font. The system needs a typeface that includes Linear B; without one it prints a placeholder, but the character itself stays exact.
Why does 𐃍 look different in different fonts?
The font draws it. As a plain text character it has no fixed artwork, so each supporting font supplies its own outline.
Does 𐃍 show a broken chariot?
No. It records a normal inventory state — scribes logged the chariot body and its wheels as separate entries.
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How to type or find 𐃍
- Also called
- B241 · CUR
- Search it as
- chariot ideogram · chariot · wheel-less · linear b · mycenaean chariot
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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