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AB03 pa

Sign AB03 pa, tracing from KH 5

Kind: syllabogram
Documents: in 102 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B: shares the shape, read PA there
Exemplar: exemplar from KH 5

Three layers, three counts

Layer	Documents	Occurrences
Word list	89 of 701 documents with a word list	98 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text	93 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text	103 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings	88 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings	95 of 5,145 occurrences in the SigLA tracings

The three layers come from different sources and cover different documents, so they measure different things and do not contradict each other.

Every value under "proposed values" is one source's proposal. This project has checked none of them against the objects. Where the sources agree, that is agreement, not proof, and a count of where a sign turns up cannot tell you what it means.

In context

Every place SigLA traced this sign, with the crop before it and the crop after it. The middle one is this sign. Pick a site, a period or a scribe hand to narrow it down, or regroup the lot.

The line number, the rest of the line and the amount show only where SigLA's crops and the sign-by-sign text agree sign for sign. Everywhere else the neighbours are just the next crops in SigLA's order (so they may sit on another line). The scribe hands are the ones lineara.xyz lists in its scribe field.

Haghia Triada 54 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Zakros 13 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

ZA 10a, line 2, amount 1
pa ? 1
ZA 10b
ZA 11a
ZA 11b
ZA 12a, line 2, amount 64
pa ? 64 ?
ZA 12b, line 3, amount 40
pa ? 40 ?
ZA 13
ZA 14, line 7, amount 2
pa nu qe 2
ZA 16
ZA 21a
ZA 4a
ZA 6b
ZA 8

Khania 11 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Knossos 6 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

KN 32a
KN 32b
KN Zb 40, line 1
a pa ki
KN Zc 6
KN Zc 6
KN Zf 13, line 1
a re ne si di A301 pi ke pa ja ta ri se te ri mu/BOS a ja ku

Phaistos 4 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Petras 2 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

PE 1
PE 2

Tylissos 2 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

TY 2
TY 3b

Arkhanes 1 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

ARKH 1a

GOURNIA 1 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

GO 2a

Papoura 1 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

PA 1, line 1, amount 35
a ku ju pa AB118 35

95 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

Haghia Triada 52 of 89 word-list documents with this sign
Zakros 9 of 89 word-list documents with this sign
Khania 8 of 89 word-list documents with this sign
Knossos 5 of 89 word-list documents with this sign
Phaistos 4 of 89 word-list documents with this sign
Palaikastro 3 of 89 word-list documents with this sign
Petras 2 of 89 word-list documents with this sign
Tylissos 2 of 89 word-list documents with this sign
Arkhanes 1 of 89 word-list documents with this sign
Iouktas 1 of 89 word-list documents with this sign
Papoura 1 of 89 word-list documents with this sign
Syme 1 of 89 word-list documents with this sign

Neighbours

Before it

AB81 ku 14 of 53 cases in the word list
AB77 ka 7 of 53 cases in the word list
AB08 a 6 of 53 cases in the word list
AB57 ja 6 of 53 cases in the word list
AB69 tu 3 of 53 cases in the word list

After it

AB57 ja 10 of 68 cases in the word list
AB59 ta 8 of 68 cases in the word list
AB60 ra 7 of 68 cases in the word list
AB09 se 5 of 68 cases in the word list
AB01 da 4 of 68 cases in the word list

Proposed values

Each row is one source's proposed value for this sign. Sources disagree and no row is verified against the objects by this project.

pa SigLA sign list, Salgarella and Castellan (sigla.phis.me)
pa Project sign manifest (signs-manifest.json)
PA Robert Hogan, lineara.xyz
PA GORILA vol. 5 sign index, Linear B name column (Godart and Olivier 1985)
pa Project canonical sign data (sign_data.json, 2026-05-14)