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More great advice on decipherment and interpretation
In A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World vol. II, Yves Duhoux has written a must-read introduction for any aspiring philologist: “Interpreting the Linear B Records: Some Guidelines”. His guidelines apply to far more than just … Continue reading
The Alice Kober papers are now available!
With many thanks to the folks at PASP (Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory) at the University of Texas at Austin, directed by Dr. Palaima, the Kober papers are now available and online: The Alice E. Kober Papers
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Tagged Alice Kober, PASP, Thomas Palaima, University of Texas
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Quiet night at the library
American Journal of Archaeology v. 50 (1946) “Inflection in Linear Class B: 1- Declension” by Alice Kober I want to very highly recommend this article, and not just because Alice Kober is one of my personal heroes. Kober’s work on … Continue reading
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Tagged AB09, AJA, Alice Kober, Gareth Owens, journals, Kadmos, kiminoa, KN F 51, Linear A, Linear B, linguistics, Litsa Kontorli-Papadopoulou, Merle Langdon, Michael Ventris, wikipedia, Yves Duhoux
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Minoan Numbers III: Sums
Minoan Numbers series I. Whole Numbers II. Klasmatograms (Fractions) III. Sums “KU-RO” AB81 + AB02 Alice Kober confirmed this sign combination as a decimal sum back in 1948, and others have confirmed this combination since. “KU-RO” is the phonetic values … Continue reading
American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)
Somewhere around p. 48 of David Packard’s Minoan Linear A from 1974, I realized my brain was slowly melting from information overload. I promptly reshelved it and wrote a note to myself to either buy the book or see if … Continue reading
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Tagged AJA, Alice Kober, American Journal of Archaeology, books, Cretan Hieroglyphs, Cypro-Minoan, David Packard, Egyptian, Eleusis, Emmett Bennett Jr., French Anderson, Hagia Triada, Ilse Schoep, Jean-Francois Champollion, journals, Linear A, Linear B, Phaistos Disk, Pylos, Thebes, Tiryns
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