Linear B

Linear B er betegnelsen for den skrift der fandtes på Knossos omkring 1400-1200 f.Kr. samt på det græske fastland i Mykene, Theben, Pylos og Tiryns.

Linear B ses som afløser for Linear A og anses for at være omkring 500 år ældre end det første klassiske græske skriftsprog, som kendes fra bl.a. Homers skrifter.

Det lykkedes i 1953 den engelske sprogforsker Michael Ventris at tyde Linear B. Michael Ventris byggede på Alice Kobers arbejde. Linear B er en stavelsesskrift, hvert tegn betegner en stavelse. ^[1]

^ 5 June 2013, BBC News: Alice Kober: Unsung heroine who helped decode Linear B Citat: "...Ventris - who had been obsessed by cracking Linear B since he was a schoolboy - built on Kober's grids as much as possible, and then added his own brilliance to the mix...In a lecture after he had cracked Linear B, and before his death, Ventris did however give substantial credit to Kober for her contribution - but this acknowledgement went largely unnoticed..."

[1] 5 June 2013, BBC News: Alice Kober: Unsung heroine who helped decode Linear B Citat: "...Ventris - who had been obsessed by cracking Linear B since he was a schoolboy - built on Kober's grids as much as possible, and then added his own brilliance to the mix...In a lecture after he had cracked Linear B, and before his death, Ventris did however give substantial credit to Kober for her contribution - but this acknowledgement went largely unnoticed..."

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