THE INSCRIPTIONS IN LINEAR B: Les archives du roi Nestor. Corpus des inscriptions en linéaire B de Pylos. Volume I: Séries Aa–Fr; Volume II: Séries Gn–Xn. (Pasiphae 13–14.) Pp. xxx + 386 + 420, ills, colour pls. Pisa and Rome: Fabrizio Serra, 2019 –2020. Cased, €945.00. ISBN: 978-88-3315-191-5

According to the new joins, it comprises 1026 clay tablets, 22 clay labels (Wa series) and 24 clay regular string nodules (series Wo–Wr). A series of contributions containing new texts, joins and readings were published between 1992 and 2017 (C. Shelmerdine and J. Bennet, Kadmos 34 [1995], J.L. Melena, Minos 27–36 [1992–2003], and F.A. Cooper and D. Fortenberry, The Minnesota Pylos Project 1990–1998 [2017]). [...]in order to update the 1973 edition, M. Del Freo and J.-P. Extremely important, therefore, is the reappraisal of tablets whose scribe had not been identified before, as for example Jo 438, now attributed to the same scribe (602) as Jn 829, and many others that led to the recognition of 13 further scribal hands (651–63). [...]tablets Fr 1223 and Tn 316 were previously seen as the work of the same scribe (H 44), but their accurate palaeographical analysis shows this was incorrect. [...]Godart and Sacconi acknowledge that two scribes may be at work on the same document.