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The decipherment of Linear B / by John Chadwick.

Title
The decipherment of Linear B / by John Chadwick.
Author
Chadwick, John, 1920-1998.
Publication
New York : Vintage Books, c1958.

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Description
xii, 159 p., 2 leaves of plates : ill.; 19 cm.
Series Statement
Vintage book V-172
Subject
  • Ventris, Michael
  • Inscriptions, Linear B
  • Inscriptions > Crete
  • Inscriptions > Mycenae (Extinct city)
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Michael Ventris -- The Minoan scripts -- Hopes and failures -- Birth of a theory -- Growth and development -- The decipherment and the critics -- Life in Mycenaean Greece -- Prospects -- Appendix: Mycenaean tablets in transcription.
OCLC
1518215
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library