Sir Arthur Evans’ successful decipherment of the Numeric Accounting System in Linear B:


Sir Arthur Evans‘ successful decipherment of the Numeric Accounting System in Linear B (Click to ENLARGE):

Scripta Minoa Arthur Evans Numerics pp. 51-52

as published in Scripta Minoa (Oxford University Press, 1952), the very same year that Michael Ventris finally deciphered the entire Linear B syllabary as well as a large number of its ideograms. Sir Arthur Evans had, of course, deciphered the numeric system years before.

SCRIPTA MINOA Oxford 1952

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