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Tracing of HT 13

Linear A is a written language from Crete, 3,500 years old, which can't be read yet.

We can count it. We cannot read it. 753 of 1,883 documents in the corpus are here as tracings of the real objects, with a plain account of what can be read and what can't.

Tablet HT 13, traced by SigLA.

  1. Sign AB77 ka, HT 13, position 1AB77 ka
  2. Sign AB10 u, HT 13, position 2AB10 u
  3. Sign AB45 de, HT 13, position 3AB45 de
  4. Sign AB59 ta, HT 13, position 4AB59 ta
  5. Sign AB131a VIN, HT 13, position 5AB131a VIN
  6. Sign AB04 te, HT 13, position 6AB04 te
  7. Sign AB27 re, HT 13, position 7AB27 re
  8. Sign AB17 za, HT 13, position 8AB17 za
The first 8 of 27 signs traced on HT 13, in reading order, each cropped from the SigLA tracing.
Crete, with the Linear A find sites

Where they were found

A map of Crete, and a list of every find site. Tap one, see what was found there.
Photograph of tablet HT 13

What a tablet looks like

One tablet, sign by sign, to the total at the end.
Sign A301, tracing from HT Wa 1623

The signs

Every sign type, sized by how often it turns up, as a tracing wherever SigLA has one.
Sign AB180, tracing from PH 13a

The ivory sceptre from Knossos

The longest Linear A text found so far, dug up a short walk from the palace. What the first report says, sign by sign, and what nobody has seen yet.
What is known, what is not Search and data