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Signs

AB08 a

Sign AB08 a, tracing from ZA 10b
Kind
syllabogram
Documents
in 153 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B
shares the shape, read A there
Exemplar
exemplar from ZA 10b

Three layers, three counts

LayerDocumentsOccurrences
Word list143 of 701 documents with a word list Unsure: 1 of 701 documents with a word list192 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list Unsure: 1 of 30 unsure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text149 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text201 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings107 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings145 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. In the word list, SigLA marks some readings of this sign as unsure. Those are counted apart and never added to the main count.

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 49 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Khania 29 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Zakros 17 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Knossos 13 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Arkhanes 12 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Phaistos 9 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Tylissos 4 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Mallia 3 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Petras 3 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Palaikastro 2 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Gournia 1 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Haghios Stephanos 1 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Papoura 1 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Syme 1 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

145 of 145 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

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

12 of 22 sites with this sign in the word list listed.

Neighbours

Before it

  • None 6 of 24 cases in the word list
  • AB77 ka 2 of 24 cases in the word list
  • AB06 na 2 of 24 cases in the word list
  • AB70 ko 2 of 24 cases in the word list
  • AB24 ne 1 of 24 cases in the word list

After it

  • AB59 ta 20 of 173 cases in the word list
  • AB51 du 16 of 173 cases in the word list
  • AB60 ra 10 of 173 cases in the word list
  • AB31 sa 9 of 173 cases in the word list
  • AB41 si 8 of 173 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.

  • 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)