Linear B tablets

From the Mycenaean palace at Pylos. 13th c. BC.
(ΕΑΜ/NAM Π 23469/ ΡΥ Un 267)

Perfume maker Thyestes receives among other substances some coriander and cyperus for the preparation of perfumed unguents. The perfume maker is mentioned in the tablets of Linear B as the man who boils the unguents, because boiling seems to have been the main procedure for perfume making.