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Signs

AB17 za

Sign AB17 za, tracing from KH 86
Kind
syllabogram
Documents
in 33 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B
shares the shape, read ZA there
Exemplar
exemplar from KH 86

Three layers, three counts

LayerDocumentsOccurrences
Word list29 of 701 documents with a word list Unsure: 2 of 701 documents with a word list36 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list Unsure: 2 of 30 unsure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text31 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text39 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings29 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings35 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 11 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Zakros 11 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Khania 6 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Palaikastro 3 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Arkhanes 1 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Petras 1 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Syme 1 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Tylissos 1 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

35 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

  • Haghia Triada 9 of 29 word-list documents with this sign
  • Zakros 9 of 29 word-list documents with this sign
  • Khania 5 of 29 word-list documents with this sign
  • Knossos 1 of 29 word-list documents with this sign
  • Kophinas 1 of 29 word-list documents with this sign
  • Palaikastro 1 of 29 word-list documents with this sign
  • Petras 1 of 29 word-list documents with this sign
  • Syme 1 of 29 word-list documents with this sign
  • Tylissos 1 of 29 word-list documents with this sign

Neighbours

Before it

  • AB27 re 9 of 34 cases in the word list
  • A325 4 of 34 cases in the word list
  • AB13 me 2 of 34 cases in the word list
  • AB45 de 2 of 34 cases in the word list
  • None 2 of 34 cases in the word list

After it

  • AB09 se 6 of 13 cases in the word list
  • AB44 ke 1 of 13 cases in the word list
  • AB24 ne 1 of 13 cases in the word list
  • AB27 re 1 of 13 cases in the word list
  • AB41 si 1 of 13 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.

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