Death of Emmett L. Bennett Jr.
From Mary Sturgeon, chair of the American School Managing Committee:
I regret to report the death of renowned Classics scholar and epigraphical specialist Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., who passed away on December 15. Regarded as the founding father of the study of Mycenaean scripts, Professor Bennett undertook seminal studies of Linear B script that contributed enormously to their decipherment by Michael Ventris in 1952; his work on the Minoan fractional system, published in the AmericanJournal of Archaeology in 1950, is considered an authoritative work to this day.
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