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Alice Kober

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American classical scholar (1906-1950)

United StatesWritersLived 1906 to 1950 · aged 43
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Alice Elizabeth Kober was an American classicist best known for her work on the decipherment of Linear B. Educated at Hunter College and Columbia University, Kober taught classics at Brooklyn College from 1930 until her death.

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The library at Brooklyn College, where Kober taught from 1930 until her deathThe library at Brooklyn College, where Kober taught from 1930 until her deathLinear B tablet found at Pylos. Kober dedicated her life to the decipherment of the script.Linear B tablet found at Pylos. Kober dedicated her life to the decipherment of the script.

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1946Guggenheim Fellowship

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Alice Elizabeth Kober was an American classicist best known for her work on the decipherment of Linear B. Educated at Hunter College and Columbia University, Kober taught classics at Brooklyn College from 1930 until her death. In the 1940s, she published three major papers on the script, demonstrating evidence of inflection; her discovery allowed for the deduction of phonetic relationships between different signs without assigning them phonetic values, and was a key step in the eventual decipherment of the script.

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Lived 1906 to 1950 · aged 43
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