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Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE (/ ˈ v ɛ n t r ɪ s /; 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956) was an English architect, classicist and philologist who deciphered Linear B, [1] the ancient Mycenaean Greek script.
Variants of the Linear B ideogram *202VAS used on the tablet PY Ta 641, with the Linear B adjective used for each. The correspondence between these symbols and adjectives was crucial evidence in favour of Ventris and Chadwick's decipherment of Linear B, which was published before they were able to view this tablet.
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.
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.
The Riddle of the Labyrinth recounts the history of Linear B, from its 1900 discovery in the Minoan ruins of Crete through its ultimate decipherment in the early 1950s, and describes the work of three people who attempted to solve the puzzle. The language in which the script was written, and most information about the society that produced it ...
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.
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]
List of years in archaeology ... Michael Ventris deciphers Minoan Linear B. [3] Births. March 30 - Alan Vince, British archaeologist (d. 2009) [4] Deaths.