Ventris in a sentence

Young adult Ventris's father died in 1938 when Ventris was 16 years old.

After creating a new field of study, Ventris died in an automobile accident a few weeks before the publication of his definitive work, Documents in Mycenaean Greek.

A number of health clinics and spas catered to the physical well-being of Ventris, constantly observing his well-being.

At first, Ventris chose his own numbering system, and agreed with Evans' hypothesis that Linear B was not Greek; however he later switched back to Bennett's system.

Based on Kober's work, and after making some assumptions, Ventris was able to deduce the pronunciation of the syllables.

Boys from Stowe school were in attendance at one lecture and tour conducted by Evans himself at age 85. Ventris, 14 years old, was present and remembered Evans walking with a stick.

During his time in England, Edward Ventris met and married Anna Dorothea Janasz (Dora), the daughter of a wealthy immigrant landholder from Poland.

During the interview period following the lecture, Ventris immediately confirmed that Linear B was as yet undeciphered, and determined to decipher it.

For example, The examples in this section except where otherwise noted come from the Mycenaean Glossary of Ventris & Chadwick (1973).

From 1931 to 1935 Ventris was sent to Bickley Hill School in Stowe.

Halifax in flight, 1942 Ventris did not complete his architecture studies, being conscripted in 1942.

Her social background was similar to what Ventris's had been: her family was well-to-do, she had travelled in Europe, and she was interested in architecture, in addition to which she was popular and was considered very beautiful.

Michael Ventris was their only child.

Noting that certain names appeared only in the Cretan texts, Ventris made the inspired guess that those names applied to cities on the island.

Syllabic signs The grid developed during decipherment by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick of phonetic values for syllabic signs is shown below.

The decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris (and others) convinced many of a linguistic continuity between 13th century BCE Mycenaean writings and the poems attributed to Homer.

The numerical references for the ideograms were originally devised by Ventris and Bennett, divided into functional groups corresponding to the breakdown of Bennett's index.

The teenager Michael Ventris was present in the audience.

The transcription of the syllable (it may not have been pronounced that way) is listed next to the sign along with Bennett's identifying number for the sign preceded by an asterisk (as was Ventris' and Chadwick's convention).

Ventris and Chadwick (1973), Fig. 4 on page 23 states the "Proposed values of the Mycenaean syllabary", which is mainly the same as the table included in this article.