When Ventris plugged some of the sounds of the Cypriot syllabary into the Linear B inscriptions, he came up with the word Knossos, the name of the city where Evans had discovered his tablets.

当文特里斯将塞浦路斯音节文字的某些发音代入到线形文字 B 中时，他得到了 “克诺索斯” 这个词，也就是伊文斯发现泥板的城市的名字。