This is a must read on Minoan and Mycenaean pottery. Among the foods carried in these jars was olive oil. I especially am fascinated by the Mycenaean Stirrup jars.
Those of you who were interested in the previous three posts about the Pottery vessels of the Bronze Age, Minoan and Mycenaean period I hope you enjoyed reading.
Please note that these posts are short excerpts from my final thesis which can be seen on my Academia account in more detail. Just go to Rita Roberts on Academia and it should take you to my page.
PART 4
The discovery of Linear A and Linear B tablets, listing commodities in the archive areas at the Palace of Ko no so – Knossos, suggests a highly organized bureaucracy as well as a system of record keeping that controlled incoming and outgoing products, such as on the Linear B tablet you see below which tells us that Te jo has 542 a- pi – po – re – we = amphorae containing e – ra – wo = olive oil We know that…
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