Special vs. Normal Mycenaean: Hand 24 and Writing in the Service of the King?

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Palaima, Thomas G.

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This paper given in honor of John T. Killen concerns the relationship between the written and the spoken word within the narrowly defined literate administrative record-keeping systems of Mycenaean palatial centers and focuses on questions connected with socio-linguistic stratification and information-gathering.

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Mycenaean period, Mycenaean palaces, Linear B, Pylos, Pylos Tablets, Dialect, Mycenaean scribal hands

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