Linear B

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1. N an ancient system of writing, apparently a modified form of Linear A, found on clay tablets and jars of the second millennium bc The earliest excavated examples, dating from about 1400, came from Knossos, in Crete, but all the later finds are at Pylos and Mycenae on the Greek mainland, dating from the 14th–12th centuries. The script is generally accepted as being an early representation of Mycenaean Greek B類線形文字; 古代的書寫體系，為A類線形文字的改良，在泥桌上及罐子上出現(xiàn)，最早發(fā)掘的實(shí)例來自克利特島的克諾索斯，但后來的發(fā)掘出現(xiàn)在希臘主島的皮洛斯和邁錫尼，這種文字被廣泛接受作為希臘邁錫尼文明的早期代表