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M. Ventris, J. Chadwick (1953)
IV.—Index To “Evidence for Greek Dialect in The Mycenaean Archives”The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 73
KRZYSZTOF TOMASZ WITCZAK A B-SERIES IN LINEAR B Dedicated to the Memory of Michael Ventris 1. I n t r o d u c t o r y r e m a r k s When in 1953 Michael Ventris and John Chadwick published their epochmaking Evidence for Greek Dialects in the Mycenaean Archives (henceforth: Evidence), their Experimental Syllabic Grid (their fig. 2) included only one labial series/>-, namely/^ (*03),/v (*72),pi (*39),po (*11) undpu (*50), and they made no discrimination between the labials /p/, /ph/ and /b/ in the Linear B script. This opinion has been generally accepted, though it has never been confirmed by the Mycenaean Greek lexical material. At present this view seems hardly acceptable for a number of reasons. First, J. Chadwick admitted in the second edition of Documents in Mycenaean Greek that "there is still no evidence that/>- can represent ß" (Docs.2 389). Second, H. Pedersen (1951) has pointed out, like others after him, that the voiced labial stop *b was a very rare phoneme in Indo-European.1 If so, its frequency must have been low in such a straightforward descendant of the protolanguage äs Mycenaean Greek, and could have been represented in those signs
Kadmos - Zeitschrift für vor- und frühgriechische Epigraphik – de Gruyter
Published: Jan 1, 1993
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