Linear B Vessel B205

A vessel type in an early Greek inventory.

PY Tn 996.3, a clay tablet from Room 20 at Pylos, is dated LH III B2, a late phase of early Greek (Mycenaean) culture. The entry pairs *205VAS with the recorded name a-te-we and the numeral 7. Pylos records distinguish vessel types by handles and feet.

Linear B grew from the earlier Linear A script around the 15th century BCE, recording Mycenaean Greek for palace accounts. Its oldest texts are associated with Knossos on Crete around the end of the 15th or beginning of the 14th century BCE.