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Evidence for Greek Dialect in the Mycenaean Archives

Michael Ventris, John Chadwick, 1953. The Journal of Hellenic Studies.

The paper in which Ventris and Chadwick set out their decipherment of Linear B and argued that the tablets from Knossos and Pylos record an early form of Greek.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.2307/628239Checked against the original0

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The inquiry-framework report cites it as the point where Ventris's sign grid was checked from outside, through Knossos place names that read as Greek.

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Ventris, M., & Chadwick, J. (1953). Evidence for Greek Dialect in the Mycenaean Archives. The Journal of Hellenic Studies. https://doi.org/10.2307/628239
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