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Johannes Heinrichs

This survey begins with the final Mycenaean period, around 1200. For the preceding Mycenaean phases evidence is lacking, and in the yet-older Minoan period, though a part of the Greek mythological tradition, a non-Greek language was spoken and written (an Aegean substrate, in Linear A script, not yet deciphered). Written in Linear B script (expressing the Greek language) they seemingly belong to fourteenth-century strata, but for both linguistic and paleographic reasons must be coeval with the tablets from Pylos (from c. 1220/1200). The geographic theater is restricted to the south west Peloponnese (Pylos) and central Crete (Knossos). Tablets from further residences such as Mycenae or Thebes (the Kadmeía) do not shed light on military aspects.