Letter from William T. M. Forbes to Alice E. Kober, January 30, 1949

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Date

1949-01-30

Authors

Forbes, William T. M. (William Trowbridge Merrifield), 1885-1968

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Classics

Description

Forbes mentions the Phaistos disk as a self-contained document. He agrees with Kober's idea of mixing syllabic and word-characters. The letter ends with Forbes rejecting Kober's other "pessimistic" views about the language origins.

Keywords

Phaistos Disk, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP), Alice E. Kober Papers, Alice E. Kober Papers--Correspondence, Alice E. Kober Papers--Correspondence--William T. M. Forbes, Linear B

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Inscriptions, Linear B, Inscriptions--Greece--Phaistos Disk

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http://hdl.handle.net/2152/16803

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Alice E. Kober Correspondence