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The Decipherment of Linear B (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39830-4. Fox, Margalit (2013). The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code. Ecco. ISBN 978-0062228833. Robinson, Andrew (2002). The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris. New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd. ISBN 0-500-51077-6.
Alice Elizabeth Kober (December 23, 1906 – May 16, 1950) was an American classicist best known for her work on the decipherment of Linear B.Educated at Hunter College and Columbia University, Kober taught classics at Brooklyn College from 1930 until her death.
Building on important work by Arthur Cowley and later by Alice Kober, the decipherment of Linear B was completed by Michael Ventris between 1940 and 1952, with a particular "critical period" between 1948 and 18 June 1952. [48] On 1 June, Ventris published a 'Work Note' to a group of Mycenaean scholars arguing that Linear B was used to write ...
With the decipherment of Linear B by Michael Ventris in 1952, [76] serious questions about Evans's date began to be considered. Most notably, Blegen said that the inscribed stirrup jars, which are oil flasks with stirrup-shaped handles imported from Crete around 1200, were of the same type as those dated by Evans to the destruction of 1400.
While working on her first book, Fox turned to a random page in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, which contained an entry for Linear B. Hoping to learn more about Ventris, an amateur linguist who was historically given near-total credit for the decipherment, Fox contacted the head of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory at the University of Texas.
Emmett Leslie Bennett Jr. (July 18, 1918 – December 15, 2011) was an American classicist and philologist whose systematic catalog of its symbols led to the solution of reading Linear B, a 3,300-year-old syllabary used for writing Mycenaean Greek hundreds of years before the Greek alphabet was developed.
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The men began to collaborate on the progressive decipherment of Linear B, writing Documents in Mycenean Greek in 1956, following a controversial first paper three years earlier. Chadwick's philological ideas were applied to Ventris's initial theory that Linear B was an early form of Greek rather than another Mediterranean language. [7]