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Signs

AB16 qa

Sign AB16 qa, tracing from KH 10
Kind
syllabogram
Documents
in 41 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B
shares the shape, read QA there
Exemplar
exemplar from KH 10

Three layers, three counts

LayerDocumentsOccurrences
Word list38 of 701 documents with a word list44 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text39 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text45 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings27 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings31 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 21 of 31 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Khania 4 of 31 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Petras 2 of 31 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Arkhanes 1 of 31 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Knossos 1 of 31 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Palaikastro 1 of 31 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Zakros 1 of 31 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

31 of 31 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

  • Haghia Triada 20 of 38 word-list documents with this sign
  • Khania 4 of 38 word-list documents with this sign
  • Knossos 3 of 38 word-list documents with this sign
  • Palaikastro 3 of 38 word-list documents with this sign
  • Syme 2 of 38 word-list documents with this sign
  • Crete 1 of 38 word-list documents with this sign
  • Petras 1 of 38 word-list documents with this sign
  • Phaistos 1 of 38 word-list documents with this sign
  • Skoteino Cave 1 of 38 word-list documents with this sign
  • Troullos 1 of 38 word-list documents with this sign
  • Zakros 1 of 38 word-list documents with this sign

Neighbours

Before it

  • AB16 qa 4 of 13 cases in the word list
  • AB28 i 2 of 13 cases in the word list
  • AB03 pa 2 of 13 cases in the word list
  • AB69 tu 1 of 13 cases in the word list
  • AB04 te 1 of 13 cases in the word list

After it

  • AB118 5 of 39 cases in the word list
  • AB67 ki 4 of 39 cases in the word list
  • AB26 ru 4 of 39 cases in the word list
  • AB16 qa 4 of 39 cases in the word list
  • AB37 ti 4 of 39 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.

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