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Clay tablet PH Hi 01

General information

Document type: Tablet
 Sub-type: Elongated/oblong tablet
 Material: Clay
 Museum: Heraklion Archaeological Museum
 Inventory number: Π-N 1
 Find spot: Phaistos, stray find
 Chronology: MM II or MM III?
 Script: Cretan Hieroglyphic or Linear A
 Inscription: #122 PH Hi 01 (CHIC, p. 182-183)
 Seal impression(s): None
 Copyright: © Heraklion Archaeological Museum

Inscription

Standard transnumeration: 038-047-047 *153 XX 302 *158 XX 302 *154 XX 302 *155 XX 302
 *153 XXV 302 307 *158 XXV 302 307[[ ]] *154 2V 307 *155 XXV
Remarks on the inscription: Difficult to determine if the second element of this inscription is a single sign with two round components, or two separate instances of the same sign. If it were a single sign, it would be a hapax, since no comparison currently exist in either Cretan Hieroglyphic or Linear A. If they were two signs, four hypotheses can be envisaged: 1) they are two CH 047 as proposed in CHIC; 2) two CH 073; 3) two hundreds; 4) two LA *309b (circle with two appendices on its lowermost part). Doubtful reading of the fraction that accompanies *158 in line 2. We suggest that the scribe wrote ‘20’ and then units (maybe three) immediately to the right of the latter. Then, they realised they had made a mistake and, probably for reasons of space, they decided to correct the units into fractional signs and re-write the units (‘5’) below. The fractional sequence is difficult to interpret, but most probably consists of CH *302 / LA *704, some partially erased vertical strokes and, immediately below, CH *307 / LA *702.

Digitization Date: November 2021
 3d Geometry: Canon EOS 2000D + Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens
 Texture: Canon EOS 2000D + Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens
 Vertices: 4310593
 Faces: 8620650
 Texture coordinates: 4387741
 Normals: 4310593

References

[1] J.-P. Olivier - L. Godart, Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae, Athens, 1996 (= CHIC)

[2] Ravanelli, R., Lastilla, L., and Ferrara, S. (2022). A high-resolution photogrammetric workflow based on focus stacking for the 3D modeling of small Aegean inscriptions. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 54, 130-145.