What 𐃜 means
B258 is a catalogue number, not a translation. It identifies the sign, not a known object. A specific commodity reading needs support from the tablet entry where the sign appears.
At Knossos, the Room of the Chariot Tablets preserves the earliest Linear B archive, dated LM II–early LM IIIA1. Palace scribes used clay tablets to track people, goods, and rations; ideograms marked commodities in those records.
Linear B is generally understood as an adaptation of Linear A. Some scholarship describes a gradual Cretan adaptation and possible influence from Cretan Hieroglyphic.
How can I type 𐃜?
Use hexadecimal character-code entry.
As of 2026, in Microsoft Office type 100DC and press Alt+X; in Linux text fields using GTK, press Ctrl+Shift+U, enter 100DC, then press Enter.
Specialist and archival: B258 serves as the sign's catalog label.
Do not turn B258 into an object's name; the tablet context must support that reading.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐃜 show as a box?
Font-dependent. A typeface without Linear B coverage can show a missing-glyph box; the character itself is unchanged.
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- Also called
- B258
- Search it as
- Linear B B258 · B258 meaning · unidentified Linear B ideogram · Mycenaean writing
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐃜\100DCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.