Ogni segno corrisponde a una sillaba, come è evidente guardando il prospetto sottostante:
Due parole su chi ha decifrato questa scrittura:
Michael Ventris Ventris was not a professional scholar but an architect. His mother was half Polish and his father contracted TB and was sent to a sanatorium in Switzerland so Ventris grew up speaking English, French, German and Polish. He learnt Latin and Greek at school (Stowe) but his mother had many artistic friends, so Ventris decided to become an architect. However the excitement of the post-war architectural modernist revolution soon wore off and he decided to take a year off and devote himself to his other great passion, that of deciphering Minoan linear B. (from http://www.civilization.org.uk/minoans/linear-b)
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