U+1008F "𐂏" Linear B Ideogram B121 Barley Unicode Character

U+1008F "𐂏" Linear B Ideogram B121 Barley is a specific sign from the Linear B script, a syllabic writing system used in Mycenaean Greece around 1450 to 1200 BCE, primarily for administrative records on clay tablets. This ideogram represents barley, a staple grain in the Mycenaean economy and diet, and it was typically used in accounting contexts to denote quantities of the crop, often alongside numerical signs in palace ledger entries. Its inclusion in Unicode under Plane 1 (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane) allows for digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient script, offering modern researchers a way to represent and analyze economic transactions from the late Bronze Age Aegean civilizations.