Pinacology is the study of Mycenaean writing on clay tablets, nodules, and so on; in other words, Mycenaean clay tablets with writing. At the site now called "to Palati tou Nestoros," Carl Blegen discovered the first linear B tablets as soon as he began excavating. Tablets continued to be found in the following years of his fieldwork and, later, during the MAWRP reexaminations from 1991 to 1998. The first tablet came to light in 1939; the last one was found just a few years ago during the MAWRP investigation of the palatial site. The entire corpus of inscribed texts will be soon be published by an excellent team of Pinacologists in Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Pylos.

I discuss two inscriptions: the first one found and the last one found. The original fragment found in 1939 was incomplete, but has since been filled out. A fragment of the second text was found in 1954, and a match for it was discovered in 1995. The method by which this was achieved, and what it means, is the Pinacological news.