U+10056 "𐁖" Linear B Symbol B056 Unicode Character

U+10056 "𐁖" Linear B Symbol B056 is an ancient script character representing a specific syllabogram or ideogram from the Linear B writing system used in Mycenaean Greece during the Late Bronze Age, primarily for administrative records inscribed on clay tablets. This particular symbol, identified as B056 by modern scholars, corresponds to a phonetic value or a commodity marker within the Linear B syllabary, which was deciphered in the 20th century as an early form of Greek. The inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures that scholars, historians, and linguists can digitally encode, preserve, and study these ancient texts, facilitating research into the economic, social, and linguistic aspects of the Mycenaean civilization without loss of fidelity.