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A picture standing beside a count.
Also known as: Linear B logogram, Commodity sign Linear B
The Linear B signs standing for a commodity, used with numerals in Mycenaean administrative tablets.
Name the commodity being counted in a Mycenaean administrative record.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Placed immediately before the numeral, so a tablet can be read for what it counts even without reading the syllabic text around it — which is how the tablets were partly understood before the script was deciphered.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Every surviving Linear B text is an administrative record; nothing literary was written in it or nothing literary survived, so the script is known entirely through inventories.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Small pictorial signs for wheat, oil, cloth, chariots and livestock, set at the end of a line before the numerals counting them.