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Ventris and Chadwick
* Ventris, Michael and John Chadwick, 1973.
* Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, decipherers of the Linear B
It is basically a syllabary, that was finally deciphered by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick in the 1950s.
Michael Ventris who, along with John Chadwick, successfully deciphered Linear B, also believed in a link between Minoan and Etruscan.
The grid developed during decipherment by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick of phonetic values for syllabic signs is shown below.
Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE ( 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956 ) was an English architect who, along with John Chadwick and Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B, a previously unknown ancient script discovered at Knossos by Arthur Evans.
A fragmentary Linear B tablet from Knossos ( tablet Xd 146 ) bears the name i-ja-wo-ne, interpreted by Ventris and Chadwick as possibly the dative or nominative plural case of * Iāwones, an ethnic name.
In 1956 Ventris and Chadwick committed to publication an idea that they had been considering previously :" Nor is there any evidence in the tablets of anything approaching currency.
Like the other archaeologists of the time, he never envisioned the palace economy as anything more than the day-to-day economics of the palace, although Ventris and Chadwick did remark on the " similarities in the size and organization of the royal palaces " of Nuzi, Alalakh and Ugarit.
Chadwick, who inherited the work and tradition of Ventris, in The Mycenaean World ( 1976 ), notably does not refer to a palace economy.
John Chadwick ( 21 May 1920 – 24 November 1998 ) was an English linguist and classical scholar who, with Michael Ventris, was most notable for the decipherment of Linear B.
* Ventris, Michael ; Chadwick, John ( 1953 ) " Evidence for Greek Dialect in the Mycenaean Archives ", The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol.
* Documents in Mycenaean Greek by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick ; documenting decipherment of Linear B writing.
Ventris and Mycenaean
The decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris ( and others ) convinced many of a linguistic continuity between 13th century BC Mycenaean writings and the poems attributed to Homer.
In 1952, Michael Ventris discovered that Linear B was being used to write the early form of Greek known as Mycenaean.
After creating a new field of study, Ventris was tragically killed in an automobile accident a few weeks before publication of its first definitive work, Documents in Mycenaean Greek.
Ventris was awarded an OBE in 1955 for " services to Mycenaean paleography.
Linear B, a script used in the ancient Aegean, was deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris, who demonstrated that it recorded an early form of Greek, now known as Mycenaean Greek.
After excavation, the discovery of the Linear B tablets, and the decipherment of Linear B by Michael Ventris, the identification was confirmed by the reference to an administrative center, ko-no-so, Mycenaean Greek Knosos, undoubtedly the palace complex.
In the 1960 compendium, City Invincible, written before 1958, he recalled Ventris stating that currency was absent from the tablets, but he phrased it in a different way: " Michael Ventris ... has asserted the absence of money in the palace economy of Mycenaean Greece.
Ventris and from
Boys from Stowe school were in attendance at one lecture and tour conducted by Evans himself at age 85, walking with a stick, remembered by Ventris, who was present.
Armed with the symbols he could decipher from this, Ventris soon unlocked much text and determined that the underlying language of Linear B was in fact Greek.
The tablets are dated from the 15th century BC to the 11th century BC and are inscribed with the Linear B script, which was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952 and corresponds to a very early form of Greek.
The rays from this satellite extend in a skirt that covers most of Ventris.
Ventris and Michael
The idea of a relation between the language of the Aegean Linear scripts was taken into consideration as the main hypothesis by Michael Ventris before discovering that in fact the language behind the more modern Linear B script was Mycenean, a Greek dialect.
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Ventris and John
He married Edith Jenkins, daughter of John Ventris Jenkins, in Brisbane on 28 May 1891.
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