Alice Elizabeth Kober was an American classicist best known for her work on the decipherment of Linear B. Educated at Hunter College and Columbia University, she taught classics at Brooklyn College from 1930 until her death. In the 1940s she published three major papers on the script demonstrating evidence of inflection, a discovery that allowed phonetic relationships between signs to be deduced without assigning them phonetic values, and was a key step toward the eventual decipherment of the script.
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RoleAmerican classicist known for work on the decipherment of Linear B 1 Alice Kober
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Her 1940s grid analysis of recurring sign patterns in Linear B established the syllabic grammar that Michael Ventris used to complete the decipherment in 1952.
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Kober 1940s grid analysis of recurring sign patterns in Linear B supplied the syllabic grammar Ventris used to complete the 1952 decipherment.
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December 23, 1906, May 16, 1950
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December 23, 1906, May 16, 1950
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was an American classicist best known for her work on the decipherment of Linear B.
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December 23, 1906, May 16, 1950
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December 23, 1906, May 16, 1950
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Alice Elizabeth Kober was an American classicist best known for her work on the decipherment of Linear B.
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