Definitions

Bernabé & Luján 2008: red-colouring agent for perfume "if it is to be identified with alkanet, or of hertis, if this was the name of henna"

Duhoux 2008: "likely a red dying substance [ (Foster 1977) ], but it is not certain that the people of [ the KN Bg ] text were involved in dying or similar activities."

Erard-Cerceau 1990: TBD

Foster 1977: red dye

Melena 1976: rubia tinctorum plant used as a dye

Chadwick & Ventris 1973: spice

Palaeolexicon: palm tree

Variants

po-ni-ki-ja

Bernabé & Luján 2008: purple
Duhoux 2008: crimson, cf. φοινίκιος
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: painted crimson
Palaeolexicon: purple, phoenix, griffin

References

Bernabé, Alberto and Eugenio Luján, 2008 A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World (editors Yves Duhoux and Anna Morpurgo Davies) "Mycenaean Technology"

Chadwick, John and Michael Ventris, 1973 Documents in Mycenaean Greek

Duhoux, Yves, 2008 A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World (editors Yves Duhoux and Anna Morpurgo Davies) "Mycenaean Anthology"

Erard-Cerceau, I., 1990 Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici (SMEA) 28 "Végétaux, parfums et parfumeurs à l'époque mycénienne"

Foster, E.D., 1977 Minos vol. 16 "po-ni-ki-jo in the Knossos Tablets Reconsidered"

Melena, José, 1976, Estudios Clásicos 77-78 "La producción de plantas aromáticas en Cnoso"