relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id 1558,ENT_MYC_POTNIA,received_as,ENT_ATHENA,high,"The Linear B tablet KN V 52 from Knossos reads ""a-ta-na po-ti-ni-ja"" — Athana Potnia, ""Lady Athena"" — making this the earliest certain attestation of the Greek goddess Athena, and establishing her origin within the Mycenaean Potnia tradition. The unqualified Potnia (""the Mistress"") is the generic form; ""Athana Potnia"" is the Knossos localization. This means Athena began as a Potnia-type great goddess and later differentiated from the Potnia collective into a distinct deity with her own name and iconographic identity in the post-Dark-Age period. Burkert (1985) treats this as one of the clearest cases of Mycenaean-to-Classical religious continuity.",SRC_VENTRIS_CHADWICK,reviewed,PER_GRK_MYCENAEAN