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类线形文字; 古代的书写体系，为A类线形文字的改良，在泥桌上及罐子上出现，最早发掘的实例来自克利特岛的克诺索斯，但后来的发掘出现在希腊主岛的皮洛斯和迈锡尼，这种文字被广泛接受作为希腊迈锡尼文明的早期代表