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Signs

AB23 mu

Sign AB23 mu, tracing from HT 3
Kind
syllabogram
Documents
in 16 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B
shares the shape
Exemplar
exemplar from HT 3

Three layers, three counts

LayerDocumentsOccurrences
Word list13 of 701 documents with a word list13 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text15 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text15 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings11 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings11 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 5 of 11 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Knossos 2 of 11 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Zakros 2 of 11 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Khania 1 of 11 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Thera 1 of 11 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

  • before: AB04AB23 mu BOS on THE 9after: AB31

    THE 9

11 of 11 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

  • Haghia Triada 5 of 13 word-list documents with this sign
  • Zakros 4 of 13 word-list documents with this sign
  • Knossos 2 of 13 word-list documents with this sign
  • Mochlos 1 of 13 word-list documents with this sign
  • Platanos 1 of 13 word-list documents with this sign

Neighbours

Before it

  • AB31 sa 3 of 9 cases in the word list
  • AB60 ra 1 of 9 cases in the word list
  • AB55 nu 1 of 9 cases in the word list
  • AB53 ri 1 of 9 cases in the word list
  • AB57 ja 1 of 9 cases in the word list

After it

  • AB26 ru 2 of 6 cases in the word list
  • A312 1 of 6 cases in the word list
  • AB37 ti 1 of 6 cases in the word list
  • AB08 a 1 of 6 cases in the word list
  • AB24 ne 1 of 6 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.

  • mu, BOS SigLA sign list, Salgarella and Castellan (sigla.phis.me)
  • mu/BOS Project sign manifest (signs-manifest.json)
  • *21M Robert Hogan, lineara.xyz
  • ? GORILA vol. 5 sign index, Linear B name column (Godart and Olivier 1985)
  • mu/BOS Project canonical sign data (sign_data.json, 2026-05-14)