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108 T.G. PALAIMA §12.2.2.2 Fig. 12.44b. Backs of inscribed clay labels from Pylos (photo from PASP archives) Top row from left: Wa 917, Wa 930 Bottom row from left: Wa 931, Wa 947, Wa 948 the piece of moist clay from behind naturally create two other small surfaces that, along with the seal-impressed front surface, can be used to record small bits of information that the scribes thought relevant and necessary. These surfaces are conventionally numbered a, b and g. Both the sealings and the labels are connected with the movement of information through space. It is likely, however, in my opinion, that in the Palace of Nestor at Pylos the inscriptions on the labels were made when the transport baskets in which they were brought to the central archives (Rooms 7 and 8 at the main entrance to the Palace of Nestor) had arrived at Archives Room 7. Ten of the labels, in fact, were found in grid square 52 (Fig. 12.15) in Room 7 directly to the left of the doorway between the outer room (Room 7), which was used mainly for the receipt, temporary storage and preliminary processing of clay documents, and the inner room (Room 8), which was used mainly for tablet filing and storage. Room 8 also had a clay bench that was used in the
§12.2.2.2 SCRIBES, SCRIBAL HANDS AND PALAEOGRAPHY 109 process of filing and later retrieving filed sets of tablets. The labels that have enough information preserved so that we can understand them relate to: (1) the census or head count of women and children workers that is the basis for the lists of monthly rations for the working women from the Further Province of Pylos (the ration tablets are the Aa 60-98 set by Hand 4, but Hand 1 wrote the label Wa 114, which was found in Grid 13 along with the Aa tablets of Hand 4); (2) the census or head count of women and children workers pertaining to women in the Hither province (Aa 240-1182 and Wa 1008, all by Hand 1); (3) the expected taxation of six commodities from provincial centres and specifically the site of sa-ma-ra, the third of the seven main centres in the Fig. 12.45. Method of making an inscribed sealed nodule (courtesy of J.L. Melena, January 13, 1996)
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