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Signs

AB31 sa

Sign AB31 sa, tracing from KH 5
Kind
syllabogram
Documents
in 113 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B
shares the shape
Exemplar
exemplar from KH 5

Three layers, three counts

LayerDocumentsOccurrences
Word list108 of 701 documents with a word list135 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text106 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text137 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings75 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings92 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 64 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Zakros 7 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Khania 5 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Knossos 4 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Phaistos 4 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Psykhro 2 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Arkhanes 1 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Gournia 1 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Kea 1 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Mallia 1 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Petras 1 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Thera 1 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

  • before: AB23AB31 sa on THE 9after: AB09

    THE 9

92 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

  • Haghia Triada 57 of 108 word-list documents with this sign
  • Iouktas 7 of 108 word-list documents with this sign
  • Palaikastro 6 of 108 word-list documents with this sign
  • Zakros 6 of 108 word-list documents with this sign
  • Knossos 5 of 108 word-list documents with this sign
  • Khania 4 of 108 word-list documents with this sign
  • Phaistos 4 of 108 word-list documents with this sign
  • Mallia 3 of 108 word-list documents with this sign
  • Kophinas 2 of 108 word-list documents with this sign
  • Thera 2 of 108 word-list documents with this sign
  • Arkhanes 1 of 108 word-list documents with this sign
  • Gournia 1 of 108 word-list documents with this sign

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

Neighbours

Before it

  • AB31 sa 18 of 78 cases in the word list
  • AB57 ja 18 of 78 cases in the word list
  • AB08 a 9 of 78 cases in the word list
  • AB39 pi 3 of 78 cases in the word list
  • AB67 ki 2 of 78 cases in the word list

After it

  • AB60 ra 23 of 114 cases in the word list
  • AB76 ra2 18 of 114 cases in the word list
  • AB31 sa 18 of 114 cases in the word list
  • AB26 ru 8 of 114 cases in the word list
  • AB80 ma 6 of 114 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.

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