Linear B Vessel Ideogram B222

It marks a vessel entry, not a spoken syllable.

Linear B syllable signs spell early Greek; ideograms like B222 mark goods in palace accounts. Catalogues also use “222 VAS,” their label for vessel signs.

Linear A, an earlier script used on Crete around 1700–1450 BCE, shares some signs with Linear B. The earliest Linear B tablets at Knossos, a palace site on Crete, date to around 1400 BCE.

A scholarly reading calls B222 a pithoid vessel—shaped like a large storage jar. Its narrow context leaves “vessel” safer than a precise pot name.