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	Linear B - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Linear B is a script that was used for writing Mycenaean, an early form of Greek.
		Linear B occurs primarily on tablets dated from the 14th and 13th centuries BCE.
		The deciphering of Linear B proved that it was a written form of Greek, to the amazement of Ventris himself, but also in direct contradiction to the general scientific views of the times.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linear_B (1033 words)

	Greek - Keyboard Map for Linear B Font
		Linear B was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952, and shown to be used for writing a very early form of Greek.
		Linear B evidently represents a borrowing from the Minoan civilization of Crete, which was written in a syllabary called Linear A. The Minoan language is unknown and the Linear A inscriptions untranslated, although there is enough similarity between Linear A and Linear B that some of the syllabic values can be inferred.
		Linear B does not appear until after the collapse of Minoan civilization following the catastrophic eruption of the volcanic island Thera, and it was used primarily for lists of goods.
	www.drshirley.org /fonts/LinearB.html (568 words)

	kairatos editions Αντώνης Θωμ. Βασιλάκης. Linear A, Linear B.
		Linear A, Linear B. At first, the Minoans were using a kind of writing which was similar to the hieroglyphics of Egypt.
		Ventris, an Englishman, deciphered Linear B in 1952.
		The same happens in the hieroglyphics; thus, we have hieroglyphics A and B etc. It would not be strange, if we have in Thessaly, hieroglyphics, or their simpler form of Linear writings, with another phonetic value, which comes from the name of the same object in the local idiom.
	www.kairatos.com.gr /linear1.htm (1889 words)

	Linear B Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Linear B is the name given to a writing system discovered by the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941) at Knossos on Crete in 1900.
		Linear A, also undeciphered, is thought to have evolved from the hieroglyphic script and was used until the 15th Century BC.
		Evans also discovered a number of parallels between the Cypriot script, which had been deciphered, and Linear B. This indicated that the language represented by Linear B was an ancient form of Greek, but he wasn't prepared to accept this, being convinced that Linear B was used to write Minoan, a language unrelated to Greek.
	www.crystalinks.com /linearb.html (414 words)

	Wikipedia: Linear B
		Linear B was a syllabary used for writing Mycenaean, an early form of the Greek language.
		The script was derived from an earlier script (Linear A) used for writing a Minoan language and thus does not accurately represent the sounds of the language.
		The first clay tablet at Knossos was discovered by the British archeologist Arthur Evans on March 31, 1900 and on April 6 he discovered a significant horde of tablets (measuring 5x10 inches).
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/l/li/linear_b.html (123 words)

	The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Organization
		Linear B is a principally syllabic script written with some 89 different signs which have been deciphered as representing both bare vowels (i.e.
		The second form of Linear B text consists of painted inscriptions on ceramic vessels, for the most part large, coarse stirrup jars on whose shoulders between one and three words were painted before the vessels were intentionally fired.
		The Linear B evidence suggests that the koreter was a local official in charge of one of the sixteen major administrative units within the Pylian kingdom, and the prokoreter was evidently his deputy.
	projectsx.dartmouth.edu /history/bronze_age/lessons/les/25.html (2791 words)

	Linear A script
		Linear A, also undeciphered, is thought to have evolved from the hieroglyphic script, and Linear B probably evolved from Linear A, though the relationship between the two scripts is unclear.
		Linear A is mixed script consisting of 60 phonetic symbols representing syllables and 60 sematographic symbols representing sounds and concrete objects or abstract ideas.
		Linear A was written in horizontal lines running from left to right on clay tablets which were probably used for keeping records of transactions.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/lineara.htm (222 words)

	LIBRARIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Linear A was used mainly in Crete, though some recent finds have demonstrated that it may have been used as a means of writing in places far removed from the island.
		The stimulus that led to the creation of Linear B was the cultural contact between the Mycenaeans and the inhabitants of the island of Minos.
		The shapes of the tablets on which Linear B is written vary, though the following are the most common: `leaf-shaped' and `page-shaped' tablets, the dimensions of which vary according to the intentions of the individual scribe.
	www.libraries.gr /nonmembers/en/history_aigaio_ikonografiki.htm (584 words)

	ANISTORITON: Viewpoints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Well, we may not be able to read the symbols of Linear A but comparing them to symbols of Linear B (some are almost the same, others look alike) and using statistical methods we may come to a conclusion on whether the script and/or the language is related to Linear B or not.
		The Linear B words were also recorded in special code and were given special codes and numbers referring to the location of the tablets they were written on, the position of syllables in the words and the number of syllables.
		Thus, phonetic values of Linear B syllables were assigned to Linear A syllables according to the similarity of symbols and MAINLY according to the frequency of the position of the syllables in the words.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/v014.htm (951 words)

	Linear B (February 2002) #65
		Linear B, for example, was always written left-to-right and had three character sets in use.
		Over half the words written in the syllabary of Linear B are proper names, for example of the owners of the materials listed, of workers, or of slaves (and even of oxen).
		Linear A is almost certainly not Greek, leaving details of the origins of the script a bit of a puzzle, given that it is quite likely that Linear B descended from Linear A, which may itself had its origins in the Hieroglyphic.
	www.whoosh.org /issue65/ribaud1.html (1973 words)

	Ourania:Applications:OmniPage Pro Folder:Input Files:ch1.html
		For the first time Linear B was seen to be not restricted to Knossos, or even to Crete, but to be in use on the mainland, for such an archive is hardly likely to have been transported from where it was written.
		Linear B is now seen to be the script of the Mycenaean palaces on the mainland, and it is its intrusion into Crete which is the feature which demands explanation.
		This does not prove that Linear B was in widespread use throughout the population, for such houses must have been occupied by members of the royal establishment.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/classicalarch/readings/ch1.html (2733 words)

	Linear B - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The first clay tablet at Knossos was discovered by the British archeologist Arthur Evans on March 31, 1900 and on April 6 he discovered a significant hoard of tablets (measuring 5x10 inches).
		Linear B has roughly 200 signs, divided in syllabic signs with phonetic values and logograms (or ideograms) with semantic values (thus, strictly speaking, Linear B is only partially a syllabary).
		Linear B is assigned Unicode Range 10000-1007F for syllabic signs and 10080-100FF for logograms.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /l/li/linear_b.html (291 words)

	What light do Linear B texts shed on the production and consumption of craft goods in Mycenaean Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The tablets on which Linear B is written have been found almost completely in palatial context, giving us a biased view of Mycenaean economy: every production and consumption not filtered by the palace is not mentioned.
		Linear B tablets were temporary records at the time they were written, they were saved extraordinarily by the last fire that destroyed the palace in which they were conserved, in the burning they became enough fired.
		The world perceivable through Linear B was fully developed, but being originated from Neolithic times probably reached the time for a major change that produced a new civilisation able to reproduce the same complexity and more only later, in Roman times.
	lettere.unive.it /materiale_didattico/archeologia_egea/8.htm (3353 words)

	Linear B and Linear A compared (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The lower object is a tablet inscribed in the Linear B script.
		Above is a closeup of a large Linear B tablet from the Mycenaean site of Pylos.
		Mycenaeans also painted Linear B signs on storage and transport jars, such as this one which contained wine or olive oil.
	ccwf.cc.utexas.edu /~perlman/myth/linb.htm (292 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Linear B
		Despite such a non-descriptive name, Linear B has proved to be the oldest surviving record of the Greek dialect known as Mycenaean, named after the great site of Mycenae where the legendary Agamemnon ruled.
		In fact, it is likely that Linear A was used to write the pre-Greek language of Crete, and the incoming Greeks adopted this writing system for their own use, but without changing how the system fundamentally works.
		To solve this problem, signs for similar sounds are used instead: p-signs are used for [p], [b], and [ph]; k-signs are used for [k], [g], and [kh]; t-signs are used for [t] and [th]; q-signs are used for [kw] and [gw]; and r-signs are used for [r] and [l].
	www.ancientscripts.com /linearb.html (1067 words)

	Linear B Ideograms - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
		The Linear B Ideograms range was introduced with version 4.0 of the Unicode Standard and is located in Plane 1 (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane), which requires the enabling of surrogates in Windows 2000; these characters cannot easily be displayed in earlier versions of Windows.
		Linear B also uses syllable signs, which can be found in the Linear B Syllabary range.
		The Linear B script was used in ancient Crete between 1400 and 1200 B.C. for a Greek dialect.
	www.alanwood.net /unicode/linear_b_ideograms.html (249 words)

	The Odyssey in Linear B, Book I, Verses 1-2
		Furthermore, we now know since Michael Ventris' decipherment of Linear B in 1952 (long after the oral-composition and Phoenician origin of the Greek alphabet theories had taken hold) that Linear B is not only a Greek script, but that many of the words have a strong Homeric flavour.
		Linear B is supposed to have died with the collapse of the Mycenean power centres, shortly after the Trojan War.
		Linear B scholars (I am delighted to know that there quite a few of them around the globe) will probably frown in disbelief or smile with amusement.
	srs.dl.ac.uk /people/pantos/Od_I_1-2LB.html (1949 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Linear A
		As time goes on, it appears that the linear hieroglyphic system evolved into Linear A. Linear A has roughly 90 symbols, thus most likely a syllabary much like Linear B.
		However, Linear A has resisted all attempts at decipherment because its underlying language is still unknown and probably will remain obscure since it doesn't seem to relate to any other surviving language in Europe or Western Asia.
		Linear B and Cypriot both exhibit considerable similarity to Linear A. Because of its time depth, Linear A appears to be the immediate ancestor to both of these writing systems.
	www.ancientscripts.com /lineara.html (274 words)

	Re: Linear logic semantics (Barwise) (353 lines)
		Linear logic combines these into one sort by incorporating the logical machinery into the nonlogical structure.
		Another semantic aspect of linear logic that should be emphasized is in Girard's "Geometry of Interaction" in Logic Colloquium '88 (North-Holland yellow series), in Danos' exposition of geometry of interaction (in French) in Gazette Math.
		Use commutative linear logic when the order in which f and g are performed makes no difference even if A and C overlap.
	www.cis.upenn.edu /~bcpierce/types/archives/1992/msg00047.html (2031 words)

	No. 1134: Linear B
		Linear A and B were significantly different from one another.
		It had a few symbols that looked like Linear B. Evans had brushed that evidence off because old Cypriot was too close to Greek.
		Linear B was closer to Greek than anyone thought.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1134.htm (541 words)

	Hesperia: Sacrificial feasting in the Linear B documents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Linear B tablets and sealings from Thebes, Pylos, and Knossos monitor preparations for communal sacrifice and feasting held at palatial centers and in outlying districts.
		(18) The Linear B tablet evidence is notoriously uneven in its representation of palatial interests from region to region.
		The term na-wi-jo is found nowhere else in the Linear B corpus, even though the contents of Jn 829 imply the ubiquity of such "temples" in all areas of a representative Mycenaean palatial territory.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SDG/is_2_73/ai_n13493383 (1059 words)

	Linear B syllabary - the ancient script of Crete
		He realised that the inscriptions represented three different writing systems: a 'hieroglyphic' script, Linear A and Linear B. The hieroglphic script appears only on seal stones and has yet to be deciphered.
		For the next 17 years, Ventris struggled to understand Linear B. At first he was sceptical that the language of Linear B was Greek, even though many of the deciphered words resembled an archaic form of Greek.
		Linear B Glossary - word in Linear B with transliteration, Modern Greek version and English translation: http://www.geocities.com/kurogr/
	www.omniglot.com /writing/linearb.htm (498 words)

	Faculty of Classics: Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mycenaean Epigraphy Group at Cambridge has a long tradition of Linear B scholarship, reaching back to the decipherment of the script in 1952 and its publication by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick in 1953.
		Some may be of use to those teaching Linear B who are not specialists in the subject, and teachers are warmly invited to access this material.
		To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of the decipherment, the Group held an exhibition of the Ventris-Chadwick correspondence at the Fitzwilliam Museum (Sept.-Dec. 2003).
	www.classics.cam.ac.uk /Everyone/linearb (289 words)

	Linear B
		Linear B is more than a syllabary, though.
		Tablets written using the Linear B script begin to appear only after the decline of the Minoan culture following the eruption of Thera (a volcanic island).
		For a somewhat more detailed discussion of Linear B, including pictures of the characters and suggested pronunciation, see the Linear B page at theOmniglot site.
	www.greek-language.com /historyofgreek/linear_b.html (363 words)

	Linear B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Linear B Ltd, a developer of machine translation technology, today announced that it has been awarded a technology grant from the Scottish government.
		Linear B is a newly formed company which produces translation software aimed at dealing with the expanding market for translation that has arisen from the maturation of the world-wide web.
		Linear B provides solutions for dealing with multi-lingual information on the internet.
	www.linearb.co.uk /press_release1.html (328 words)

	Linear B Deciphered
		When Blegen discovered the Linear B tablets on the Greek mainland in the ruins of the ancient palace in Pylos, they were ascribed to the Heroic Age of Troy, the final stage of the Mycenaean Age that ended abruptly.
		Yet even after the Linear B tablets were found on the mainland of Greece their language was not thought to be Greek.
		Chadwick, The Decipherment of Linear B (Cambridge, 1958).
	www.varchive.org /dag/decipher.htm (1179 words)

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