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2011-05-05
Linear B tablet unearthed at Iklaina (Messenia)
A fragment of a Linear B tablet has been unearthed at Iklaina-Traghanes (Messenia). The site, excavated since 2006 by an archeological mission of the University of Missouri St. Louis, is located 4 km south of Nestor's palace and can be identified with one of the nine chief towns of the so called Hither Province of the Mycenaean kingdom of Pylos. The fragment was found in a pit with pottery datable to between Late Helladic IIB and Late Helladic IIIA2 early (about 1430-1350 A.D.). More details about the context can be found in the excavation report for 2010.A brief comment on the tablet has been published in the mailing list "AegeaNet".
(M.Del Freo)