DECIPHERING KOBER’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE DECIPHERMENT OF LINEAR B
Brent Davis, Anthony Bronzo
Alice E. Kober was an instrumental figure in the decipherment of Linear B, in that she discovered grammatical paradigms in the script that enabled her to begin the phonetic grid that was later so essential to Ventris’s decipherment. But more than 70 years after her untimely death, no one has ever been able to describe exactly how she made her discovery. We do so in this paper, after extensive work in her archive.
Brent Davis is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne.
Anthony Bronzo is Teaching Assitant at the Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin.
Full Bibliographic Reference
Davis B., Bronzo A., Deciphering Kober’s Contribution to the Decipherment of Linear B, SMEA NS 9, 2023, 83-98.
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Keywords
Kober; Linear B decipherment; Ventris; Chadwick
