Linear B tablet KN 702 M b 11, “to all the gods” by Rita Roberts


Linear B tablet KN 702 M b 11, “to all the gods” by Rita Roberts

Knossos tablet KN 702 M b 11

This is one of the most significant of all Linear B tablets, as it refers “to all the gods” . But who are all of these gods in Mycenaean Greek? Beneath the translation all of the Mycenaean gods are listed. We notice that whereas many of them survived into archaic and classical Greek (those tagged with an asterisk * after them), some did not. They simply disappeared after the fall of Mycenae ca. 1200 BCE. However, this does not mean that most of them were not (highly) significant to the Mycenaeans. We cite in particular Potnia or Potnia Theron = Mistress (of the Wild Beasts), Emaha2 (Emahai), Manassa, Presphaion, Qerasiya (Kerasiya) and Tiriseroe.

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3 thoughts on “Linear B tablet KN 702 M b 11, “to all the gods” by Rita Roberts”

  1. Very interesting with the listing of the gods. Would those Mycenaean gods not marked by an asterix be indigenous and then superseded by the ones in the Classical period?

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