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AB08 a

Sign AB08 a, tracing from ZA 10b

Kind: syllabogram
In words: 193 of 4,316 word-stream tokens
Documents: 153 of 1,817 documents with any sign (word list 143, sign-by-sign text 149, SigLA tracings 107)
Traced: 145 of 5,145 traced occurrences
Linear B: shares the shape, read A there
Exemplar: exemplar from ZA 10b

Every value listed under "proposed values" is a proposal from one source. None of them is verified against the objects by this project. Where the sources agree, that is agreement, not proof.

In context

ARKH 1a
ARKH 1b line 1
ARKH 2 line 3
ARKH 4a
ARKH 4b
ARKH 5 line 1
GO Wc 1a line 1
HS Zg 1 line 1
HT 1
HT 109

10 of 145 traced occurrences shown.

Where it appears

Haghia Triada 42 of 143 documents with this sign
Khania 22 of 143 documents with this sign
Zakros 11 of 143 documents with this sign
Knossos 10 of 143 documents with this sign
Phaistos 8 of 143 documents with this sign
Arkhanes 6 of 143 documents with this sign
Iouktas 6 of 143 documents with this sign
Thera 6 of 143 documents with this sign
Palaikastro 5 of 143 documents with this sign
Syme 5 of 143 documents with this sign
Mallia 4 of 143 documents with this sign
Petras 4 of 143 documents with this sign

12 of 22 sites listed.

Neighbours

Before it

AB77 ka 2 of 20 cases
AB60 ra 2 of 20 cases
AB06 na 2 of 20 cases
AB70 ko 2 of 20 cases
AB24 ne 1 of 20 cases

After it

AB59 ta 20 of 170 cases
AB51 du 16 of 170 cases
AB60 ra 10 of 170 cases
AB31 sa 9 of 170 cases
AB41 si 8 of 170 cases

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.

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