https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20162981
> gentle reader, pray perpend the syllable-groups (reference number Dy 401), that run: a-ma wi-ru-qe ka-no to-ro-ja qi-pi-ri-mu a-po-ri. Here we have two specimens of the labio-velars, the syllables with q-, discovered by Ventris, to the astonishment of philologists who had not expected to find them in Bronze Age Greek. qe is, of course, equivalent to Latin -que, Greek te, while qi doubtless here shows the development to a voiced dental noted by Ventris and Chadwick in their "Mycenaean Vocabulary,"
> The Greek evaluation of the sentence would be, according to Ventris's spelling rules, halmai wiluite kainōs Tholoiai Diphilimus apolis: "With brine and slime in novel fashion at Tholoia (the place of tholoi, beehive tombs) Diphilimus (is) cityless." No doubt this is a record of a Bronze Age tidal wave.
> It is by coincidence that the acumen of Mr. Michael C. Stokes, the Edinburgh authority on ancient philosophy, has extracted the Virgilian hexameter, Arma virumque cano Troiae qui primus ab oris....
> Note that in this sentence one need assume only two of the six words to be names of persons or places, whereas, in the Lin B material as a whole, 75 per cent of the sign-groups have to be, on Ventris's system, evaluated as names
I was interested to learn that it is considered significant that Apollo is not attested in the deciphered corpus of Linear B. (Though Paean is.)
I was also interested to learn, later, that the obviously Greek Alaksandus of Wilusa, writing in Hittite in the 13th century BC, did guarantee his half of a treaty by invoking the deity "Apaliunas".
The point being made is that the standard for interpreting Greek from Linear B is so low that any set of symbols at all can be validly interpreted as a coherent Greek sentence.
As long as 75% of the words are viewed as proper nouns, of course.
For example, the English word "credit card", which is three syllables, is written in Japanese as ku-re-di-t-to-ka-a-do, which is eight. The Ventris hypothesis works in the other direction -- he believes that speakers of phonologically-rich Greek made do with a writing system that could only express much simpler syllables.
Though we have examples of that too; Antiochus of Macedon left an Akkadian inscription reading, as given in Empires of the Word [1], "I am An-ti-'u-ku-us [Antiochus], the great king, the legitimate king, the king of the world, king of E [Babylon], king of all countries, the caretakeer of the temples Esagila and Ezida, the first born of Si-lu-uk-ku [Seleucus], Ma-ak-ka-du-na-a-a [Macedonian], king of Babylon."
Contrast Antiochus' (or his scribes') concern for vowel length when he goes to the trouble of writing Ma-ak-ka-du-na-a-a with the reading of kainoos from ka-no.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166433.Empires_of_the_Wo...