The Knossos Od Series: An Epigraphical Study

by Nosch, Marie-Louise

• ISBN13: 9783700136057
• ISBN10: 3700136056
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-30
• Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences

Summary

"This study is an epigraphical investigation of the Linear B records from the West Wing in the palace of Knossos. Its focus is the group of 61 unclassified Od tablets with the ideogram for wool. The author presents a new classification of the Od tablets by identifying new sets, and by integrating unclassified Od tablets into existing Od sets or into other series recording wool, such as the two well known and thoroughly researched 'bureaux', the textile and the sheep administration. Recent work by Firth on find-places has provided new insights for this study. In the present study, 35 prefix changes are suggested. Only few unclassified Od tablets, however, can be associated with the initial parts of textile production in which scribes 103 and 113 set targets and manage the production. Rather, many unclassified Od tablets belong to the final stages of the textile production, that is, the finishing and decoration of the cloth."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 10
Parameters for the Analysis of the Od Tablets	p. 11
Introduction to the Od series	p. 11
New information on the Od fragments	p. 12
The Od tablets which may belong to other series	p. 12
The layout of the tablets	p. 13
The wool ideograms	p. 15
Fractions	p. 23
o-pe-ro and wool	p. 24
Find-places	p. 25
Scribal hands 115 and 227	p. 27
Conclusion of Section I	p. 30
Catalogue of 'Unclassified' Od Tablets	p. 31
Suggestions for a New Classification	p. 53
Conclusion	p. 61
Bibliography	p. 69
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