The Linear B PA-I-TO epigraphic Project

“The Linear B pa-i-to Epigraphic Project” is an epigraphic and philological pilot project aimed at publishing a new critical edition of 94 Linear B tablets from Knossos, kept in the Heraklion Museum where there is mention of the name of the ancient town of Phaestos —pa-i-to. Especially, we aim at developing new approaches in the study, the publication and the edition of this small corpus of tablets by applying new non-invasive, non-destructive and non-contact digital and photographic technologies. This methodology consists in combining two separate procedures of digital acquisition: Scanning the tablets thought a portable 3D Laser scanner and Taking pictures of the tablets through the Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technology. Starting from these premises, the paper describes the methodological approaches adopted and the first results achieved of the project