The Decipherment of Linear BCambridge University Press, 15 мая 2014 г. - Всего страниц: 174 The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. In revealing the secrets of Linear B it offers a valuable survey of late Minoan and Mycenaean archaeology, uncovering fascinating details of the religion and economic history of an ancient civilisation. |
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MICHAEL VENT | 9 |
The Cypriot syllabary | 23 |
HOPES AND FAILURES | 26 |
Kobers triplets | 35 |
BIRTH OF A THEORY | 40 |
Pylos tablet Aa62 showing composition of text | 45 |
The building of the grid | 51 |
Ventris grid 28 September 1951 | 59 |
A Knossos chariot tablet Sc230 | 108 |
Mycenaean vessels and their names | 117 |
23 | 123 |
LIFE IN MY CENAEAN GREECE | 134 |
Postscript | 141 |
24 | 148 |
44 | 156 |
Mycenaean Tablets in Transcription I 58 | 158 |
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