the decipherment of linear b, the earliest adaptation of greek language into a script, revealed a world of laborious palace administration, widespread trade, religious offerings and military campaigns. it was a syllable based script with numerous ideograms, which flourished and declined along with the mycenaean civilization (1600–1100 bc). this series depicts characteristics of its cultural signature through a selection of prominent ideograms decorated with geometric period motifs, in a combination of linguistic and artistic elements of that time.