What 𐂤 means
It stands for cheese in Linear B. This monogram combines smaller syllabic signs for the Mycenaean Greek word for cheese, transcribed as turyos. Linear B was used for palace records in Mycenaean Greece.
On tablet Un 718 from Pylos, 𐂤 appears beside tu-ro2, a scholarly transcription of the same word written syllable by syllable, in a record listing quantities, livestock, and other goods. Linear B was adapted from the earlier Linear A script. The oldest surviving group of Linear B tablets at Knossos dates to around the 14th century BCE, perhaps as early as the late 15th.
Scholarly and archival; outside a Linear B record, its cheese reading is hard to recognize.
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tu-ro2, the written form beside this monogram on Pylos tablet Un 718.tu-ro2, the written form beside this monogram on Pylos tablet Un 718.Questions people ask
1Why does 𐂤 appear as a box?
The text still contains 𐂤, but your font or app may lack a Linear B glyph. A font with Linear B coverage can display it.
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How to type or find 𐂤
- Also called
- turo2 · cheese
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- Linear B · tu-ro2 · B156 · Mycenaean
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