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Linear b: syllabic script that was used by the mycenaeans during the late bronze. Consists of 87 syllabic symbols and several ideograms, which are type of object being described (cow, chicken) and also as a unit of measure. It was loosely based off its precursor which was the linear a tablet, which is undecipherable and minoan in origin. Many of the clay tablets had been found in knossos, cydonia, pylos, thebes and mycenae. From what is derived, seems like linear b ha been used for administrative values and it has been proposed that the script was used by a small group of professional scribes who served in he central palace. Records of goods and commodities were accounted for here possibility that it was used for things such as taxes once these palaces were destroyed, so where these scripts. Dodona: a shrine that was located in epirus and was dedicated to dione.
