A Companion to Linear B - The University of Texas at Austin

§12.1.2.6 SCRIBES, SCRIBAL HANDS AND PALAEOGRAPHY 89
for tablets with very brief texts, such as many of those from the RCT, and the
very brief inscriptions on the facets of seal-impressed clay nodules. 107 It also
poses problems for palaeographical groupings like “124” c whose one tablet
(now prefixed Ce 59) has only 17 diagnostic signs, and “124” h whose two
tablets have just 11 diagnostic signs (Fig. 12.32). Especially noteworthy is that
sign nu on Sc 238 and sign to on Sc 257 are clearly at variance with the standard
ways that Hand 124 makes these signs (Fig. 12.33 and compare Fig. 12.31,
where versions of nu are seen as the signs in the fourth row sixth column).
Fig. 12.32. Tablets of ‘hands’ “124” c and “124” h from the Room of the Chariot
Tablets at Knossos (after CoMIK 1, 34, 103, 109)
107 PITEROS – OLIVIER – MELENA 1990. We may also remark that the brevity of individual texts in
Linear A and Cretan Hieroglyphic makes the assignment of these texts to scribal hands difficult.