Ventris - Michael Ventris

Japanese: ベントリス - べんとりす(英語表記)Michael Ventris
Ventris - Michael Ventris

British architect and decipherer of Linear B, a type of Minoan script. He learned of the undeciphered Minoan script when he heard a lecture by Evans as a boy, and continued to study it even after he grew up and became an architect. In 1952, he revealed that Linear B was early Greek, and succeeded in deciphering it. His achievement was highly praised as a major contribution to elucidating the Minoan civilization, but he died young on September 6, 1956, in a traffic accident.

[Hajime Kataoka]

"Deciphering Linear B" by Chadwick, translated by Isao Oshiro (1976, Misuzu Shobo)

[Reference item] | Linear character B

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

イギリスの建築家で、ミノス文字のうちの線状文字B(線文字B)の解読者。少年時代、エバンスの講演を聞いて、未解読のミノス文字を知り、長じて建築家となってからも、その研究を続けた。1952年、線状文字Bが初期ギリシア語であることを明らかにし、解読に成功する。その業績はミノス文明の解明に大きく貢献するものとして高く評価されたが、1956年、交通事故のため9月6日夭逝(ようせい)した。

[片岡 肇]

『チャドウィック著、大城功訳『線文字Bの解読』(1976・みすず書房)』

[参照項目] | 線状文字B

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