DECIPHERING KOBER’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE DECIPHERMENT OF LINEAR B

Brent Davis, Anthony Bronzo

Abstract


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.


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