U+10021 "𐀡" Linear B Syllable B011 Po Unicode Character

U+10021 "𐀡" Linear B Syllable B011 Po is a syllabic sign from the Linear B script, which was used primarily in ancient Mycenaean Greece for administrative record keeping on clay tablets dating from roughly 1450 to 1200 BCE. This particular character represents the syllable "po" and is classified under the category of syllabic signs, as Linear B is a syllabary rather than an alphabet. It was deciphered in the 1950s by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, revealing a language that turned out to be an early form of Greek. The character belongs to the Unicode block for Linear B, which preserves these ancient writing symbols for digital encoding and scholarly study.