On Dual Number of z-Stems in the Mycenaean Tablets

Abstract

A detailed examination of the tablets and of the direct and inverse indexes, carried out with the intention —now discarded— of making up an exhaustive grammatical index, led me to six tablets showing eleven possible examples of nominative-acusative dual with final -a for the so-called first declension, apart from those forms in -o and ?-e (e.g. to-pe-zo, e-qe-ta-e) which are already known and accepted.