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This book makes available drawings and copies of the texts inscribed in the Mycenaean (Linear B) script on some hundreds of clay tablets that were brought to light in 1939 and from 1952 to 1954 in western Messenia. The tablets were discovered in excavations conducted by the late Dr. K. Kourouniotis and Professor Carl W. Blegen of the University of Cincinnati at Epano Englianos, north of the modern town of Pylos, in the ruins of a palatial Myceanean building, which in size and style of construction is comparable to the palaces of Mycenae and Tiryns, and may be identified as the palace of King Nestor. The inscriptions from PYlos form one of the large groups of written documents in the Mycenaean script, and in interest and variety are pre-eminent. Their publication here makes available the archives of the palace of Nestor as far as they had been recovered by the summer of 1954. This volume will replace the earlier edition of the "Pylos tablets, a preliminary transcription" (1951). Facsimile drawings of all the tablets are included for the first time, and the copies now follow more closely the normal epigraphic convetions. Further revisions have been made in the lists of signs, and in the indexes to the texts, to make them more useful to those who, with the aid of the decipherment of Ventris and Chadwick, will now read the Pylos tablets.

Inscriptions, Linear B --- Linéaire B (écriture) --- Pylos Site (Ēleia, Greece) --- Pylos (Élide, Grèce ; site archéologique)