Another disyllable (or even trisyllable ??) which you may have
noticed is ko-ri-ja-do-no (Knossos) / ko-ri-a2-da-na (Pylos), as
used as a description of one of the kinds of the commodity AROM.
-do-no and -da-na line up as regards vowel and consonant positions
with the places I gave them on the last version of the
GRID (Figure 11), for what they’re worth. da [not equal to] a2 is a new
one on me, and I must look into it a bit more. A connection with a or wa ?
The description of the other kind of AROM, incidentally, also
presumably recurs in ku-pa-ro (Knossos)/ ku-pa-ro2 (Pylos). 

                     I was rather disappointed to find negative reference
to Amnisos as a port of Knossos in the “Palace of Minos”; but I’ve
since been reading Marinatos’ account of his 1933- excavations
in Praktika, and he seems to have thought that Amnisos was
the main port. This doesn’t necessarily say much for a-mi-ni-so,
of course, but it’s worth bearing in mind.

                     I haven’t heard from any of our other colleagues
since Scripta Minoa was out; but I expect Ktistopoulos will come
out with something before long. It’s a pity that some of them,
like Sittig, have so far committed themselves to a set of phonetic
values that they’re bound to be hamstrung by it, in studying
the new material.

                     I’m working on a radio talk I’ve been asked to
give on the background to Myres’ book. I’ve tried to describe the
past history of finding writing in the Aegean, and to put
over the methods one uses in trying to decipher a script like
this. But I don’t know if I shall manage to put across just how
fascinating it seems to us. 

                                                                       Yours, 
                                                                                Michael Ventris


                     I’m beginning to think that I must have left too
few vowel spaces, & too many consonants, on the last grid.
If for instance, ri ro ro2 re ru ra ra3 ra2 all belong together, or
ti to do te de da du, it looks as if there are more than 5 vowels, on the
average, or at least a number of homophones.
                     Taking an average of 61/2 vowels per consonant, even,
it only gives you 13 consonant lines: only enough for 
-, j, w, k, p, t, l, m, n, r, s, z, plus s’ or h
                      This is only what the Cypriot syllabary has. Does the
fat of one sign for t, th, d etc go back to the Minoan Script? 
On the other hand, some of the rarer consonants may have
fewer signs, & this may help to redress the balance.