The pithos was proposed to appear as , "qe-to", in the Bronze Age records of Pylos and Mycenae, denoted by Ideogram 203 , a small picture very similar to some Knossos pithoi, but which could just as well be matched by smaller pottery. Strangely enough it was not found at Knossos, a major find site of pithoi. It was duly transcribed as WINE JAR in Bennett's system, on the presumption that it would store primarily wine. According to the rules of reconstructing Mycenaean Greek from Linear B, qe-to must be a transcription of "quethos" or "quhethos", from a "base" of "*gwhedh-". The latter is similar to some Indo-European roots but has no meaningful connection to any. Ventris and Chadwick suggest that either "qe-to" was not a pithos, but was some smaller vessel, or that pithos is a foreign loan, like "aryballos", "lekythos", and some others. The Cretan pithos precedes by several hundred years any mentioned in Mycenaean Greek; moreover, many are inscribed with a line or two of Linear A. Perhaps pithos derives from a Linear A word. Ventris and Chadwick do not exclude "fiscus" from necessarily being related to "pithos", they only point out that, if such is the derivation, the process is more complex than previously thought.