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Where they were found

A map. Tap a site, see what was found there.

Most of it comes from one place. 1,167 of 1,880 documents come from Haghia Triada, a villa near Phaistos. No other site comes close. The name means Holy Trinity, after a chapel nearby, not after anything Minoan.

Not every dot is a palace. Some are peak sanctuaries with one carved stone cup. Some are single sherds. The count next to each name is the number of records, and a record is one face of one object (so a tablet with writing on both sides is two).

The corpus also holds documents from outside Crete, on Thera, Kea, Kythera, Melos, at Miletos and Troy, and one findspot nobody wrote down. Those are listed below the map, and the map does not show them.

Relief map of CreteCrete, with the Linear A find sites TrypitiTrypiti: 1 of 1880 documentsTroullosTroullos: 1 of 1880 documentsTraostalosTraostalos: 1 of 1880 documentsSkoteino CaveSkoteino Cave: 1 of 1880 documentsSkhiniaSkhinia: 1 of 1880 documentsSitiaSitia: 1 of 1880 documentsSelakanosSelakanos: 1 of 1880 documentsPrassaPrassa: 1 of 1880 documentsPlatanosPlatanos: 1 of 1880 documentsPhourniPhourni: 1 of 1880 documentsPapouraPapoura: 1 of 1880 documentsKardamoutsaKardamoutsa: 1 of 1880 documentsKanniaKannia: 1 of 1880 documentsKamilariKamilari: 1 of 1880 documentsKalo ChorafiKalo Chorafi: 1 of 1880 documentsArmenoiArmenoi: 1 of 1880 documentsZominthosZominthos: 2 of 1880 documentsPoros HerakleiouPoros Herakleiou: 2 of 1880 documentsNerokourouNerokourou: 2 of 1880 documentsLaraniLarani: 2 of 1880 documentsKophinasKophinas: 2 of 1880 documentsArkalochoriArkalochori: 2 of 1880 documentsVrysinasVrysinas: 3 of 1880 documentsPsykhroPsykhro: 3 of 1880 documentsMochlosMochlos: 3 of 1880 documentsApodoulouApodoulou: 3 of 1880 documentsPyrgosPyrgos: 4 of 1880 documentsGourniaGournia: 5 of 1880 documentsTylissosTylissos: 6 of 1880 documentsSymeSyme: 12 of 1880 documentsPetrasPetras: 12 of 1880 documentsArkhanesArkhanes: 12 of 1880 documentsIouktasIouktas: 16 of 1880 documentsMalliaMallia: 24 of 1880 documentsPalaikastroPalaikastro: 25 of 1880 documentsZakrosZakros: 53 of 1880 documentsKnossosKnossos: 65 of 1880 documentsPhaistosPhaistos: 79 of 1880 documentsKhaniaKhania: 245 of 1880 documentsHaghia TriadaHaghia Triada: 1167 of 1880 documents
40 of 55 sites are pinned. The map does not show the other 15: Unknown findspot (62), Thera (18), Kea (10), Crete (4), Miletos (4), Melos (3), Mycenae (3), Kythera (2), Samothrace (2), Troy (2), Arkhalkhori (1), Haghios Stephanos (1), Margiana (1), Tel Haror (1), Tiryns (1). Relief: NASA Blue Marble: Next Generation (public domain, NASA Earth Observatory, R. Stockli). Hillshade from Copernicus DEM GLO-30, produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 (c) DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and (c) Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.

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