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15.06.2023
Dysfunctional Multiple Word Search discovered, fixed error

13.06.2023
The DAMOS web app has been moved to new hardware

11.09.2022
The newly published tablet from Khania (KH X 8) has been added.

10.09.2021
Links to the 3D images currently at the PA-I-TO Project have been added.

09.07.2021
Classification (series, subseries, sets), hands and joins for the Pylos tablets have been updated according to PTT3. Addition of new documents published in PTT3 and revision of the texts against PTT3 are ongoing

28.04.2021
Links to the images hosted at the web site of the British Museum have been added.

29.03.2021
Links to the images in LiBER (Knossos, Mycenae, Midea, Tiryns) have been added.

28.03.2021
References to the anthology included (p. 332-392) in: BERNBABÉ, A. & E. R. LUJÁN. 2020. Introducción al griego micénico. Zaragoza, Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, have been included in the basic bibliography of the relevant documents.

02.11.2020
The tablets found in Pylos in 2017 and published in (Judson et al. 2019) have been added.

11.11.2019
The texts of the documents re-published in L. GODART, A. SACCONI 2017. Supplemento al corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B have been updated according to this publication. Previous readings are mentioned in the notes, together with comments from JUDSON, A. 2018, Review of Supplemento(2107), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2018.10.41

16.10.2019
The new online version of DAMOS has been launched.

15.10.2019
Links to texts, images and data in LiBER (Mycenae, Midea, Tiryns) have been added.

26.09.2019
References to Mycenaean documents in M. Del Freo, M. Perna (eds.) Manuale di Epigrafia Micenea have been added to the Basic Tablet Bibliography of the single tablets.

15.09.2019
Links to the Pylos images in CaLiBRA have been added.

13.09.2019
The Knossos tablets have been updated according to The Knossos Tablet, Sixth Edition, A Transliteration by José L. MELENA with the collaboration of Richard J. FIRTH, 2018:
Series, Subseries and Set changes,
Scribal hand changes,
New Joins.
Caveat: a few minor textual differences might have escaped. A revision of the texts is ongoing.

10.10.2018
The find places of the Pylos tablets have been updated according to Firth(2017).

25.07.2016
Here you can see a list of the documents in DAMOS for which a link to an image has been added (see under). Here you can download the same list as an Excel file.

7.11.2015
Links to pictures of, and information  about,the seals, tablets and vases contained in the Arachne Database (which also hosts the CMS – Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals– online edition) have been added. Seals and seal impressions will soon be made searchable.

6.11.2015
Links to the pictures of the tablets from Knossos housed in the Ashmolean Museum have been added.

11.5.2015
The function Highlight Changes is now implemented also for the Pylos documents: If one clicks on "Highlight Changes" in the "Tablet search"-page, the part of a text (or of its metadata, in the heading) which, due to joins or new readings, differ from current standard editions, will be highlighted in bold. A list of the changed tablets will also, soon, be made available for searches.

11.5.2015
The layout of the Pylos documents has now been fixed: Thus, all texts from all sites have now the right layout, reproducing (approximately, as is inevitably the case for all editions) the disposition of the text on the original documents.

8.2.2015
The find places of the ISJs have been inserted into the metadata and will as soon as possible be made available for research.

7.2.2015
Two texts which had up to now inadvertently not been included in the database, TH Uq 434 from AGS(2008) (the only document not present in AGS(2005)) and TI Z 53 from Godart-Killen-Olivier(1979). Also the text of MY Z 717 has been updated according to Melena(1977).

2.2.2015
The find places of the tablets from Pylos have been inserted into the metadata and will as soon as possible be made available for research. Please let us know if you happened to find any mistake!

11.01.2015
The 7 new findings from Khania (KH X 7) and Thebes (TH Z 976-981), as published in (Andreadaki-Vlasaki-Godart2004) and (Aravantinos-Fappas-Godart-Sacconi2014), have been added.

21.11.2014
The find places of the tablets from Knossos, Mycenae, Tiryns and Khania have been inserted into the metadata and will as soon as possible be made available for research. Please let us know if you found any mistake!

28.10.2014
A map of the Mycenaean sites has been added to the text browsing page, where the site(s) of the selected documents are highlighted.

10.7.2014
By clicking on Highlight Changes it's now possible to see the part of a text (or of its metadata) which, due to joins or new readings, differ from current standard editions. This feature is at the moment only implemented for the texts from Knossos.

2.7.2014
Knossos: Find Place and Chronology information added in the metadata for the tablets from the so called "Room of the Chariot Tablets" (RCT)

1.7.2014
Knossos: the texts have now the right layout, reproducing (approximately, as is inevitably the case for all editions) the disposition of the text on the original documents

21.6.2014
Mycenae: tablets from the so called "Petsas House": texts updated and new texts added, see (SGS2012).

19.2.2014
The texts from Dimini (to be found under Dimini and Vases - Dimini) and those presented in the 13th International Mycenological Colloquium (Sèvres, Paris, Nantere, 20-23.9.2010): Iklaina, Volos, Hagios Vasileios have been added.

08.12.2013:
A general problem with the fonts of the web interface, which caused a quite imprecise layout of the texts has been fixed. The layout of the texts is now faithful to the layout of tablets and editions (still with the temporary exception of Knossos and Pylos - but the right layout is coming soon!).

19.10.2013:
the text of the Knossos tablets is now completely revised and should be free from mistakes. The layout, though, has still to be changed.
Please, let us know if you still find any mistakes in the texts!

30.9.2013:
some mistakes in the paleographic groups of the nodules from Thebes (e.g. TH 63 Wu) have now been fixed.