Clay vessel · Tel Haror

TEL Zb 1

Site
Tel Haror
Object
Clay vessel
Period
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Scribe
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Findspot
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Linear ATransliteration
  1. 1MU≈TELA+TE≈NI

Translation

Ox, cloth, figs: three logograms.

Word by word3 words

  • MUmūrubovine (commodity ideogram)Confirmed
  • TELA+TEcloth logogram, TE ligaturedCandidate
  • NI*nikuleonfigsConfirmed

Commentary

Sherd of a large vessel from the Tel Haror temple complex, MB III, in clay of the Myrtos-Pyrgos region. Olivier reads three logograms: animal head, cloth, figs. The script, Cretan Hieroglyphic or Linear A, is open (RILA-S1 D 13).

Epigraphic note

Three logograms: animal head (BOS), cloth (TELA+TE), figs (FIC), as Olivier reads them in the editio princeps (RILA-S1 D 13; Younger). In the facsimile the TE hatching is drawn inside the cloth sign, a ligature, not WA followed by TE. Whether the script is Cretan Hieroglyphic or Linear A, RILA-S1 leaves open.

Linear A Lexicon