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AB39 pi

Sign AB39 pi, tracing from KH 6

Kind: syllabogram
Documents: in 54 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B: shares the shape
Exemplar: exemplar from KH 6

Three layers, three counts

Layer	Documents	Occurrences
Word list	52 of 701 documents with a word list	58 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text	51 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text	57 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings	34 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings	38 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 11 of 38 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Zakros 9 of 38 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

ZA 10a, line 7, amount 1
da i pi ta 1
ZA 11a
ZA 14, line 5, amount 1
ku pi 1
ZA 21a
ZA 21a
ZA 4a
ZA 4a
ZA 5b
ZA 8

Arkhanes 4 of 38 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Khania 4 of 38 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

KH 10, line 6, amount 90
a ki pi e te GRA 90
KH 18
KH 6
KH 86

Knossos 4 of 38 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

KN Wc 26b
KN Zc 7
KN Ze 16, line 1
a pi
KN Zf 13, line 1
a re ne si di A301 pi ke pa ja ta ri se te ri mu/BOS a ja ku

Phaistos 2 of 38 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

PH 19, line 1
pi o ?
PH 2, line 3, amount 60
pi ru e ju 60

Tylissos 2 of 38 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

TY 2
TY 3b

Mallia 1 of 38 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

MA 10b

Petras 1 of 38 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

PE 2

38 of 38 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

Haghia Triada 11 of 52 word-list documents with this sign
Zakros 8 of 52 word-list documents with this sign
Knossos 6 of 52 word-list documents with this sign
Khania 5 of 52 word-list documents with this sign
Arkhanes 3 of 52 word-list documents with this sign
Palaikastro 3 of 52 word-list documents with this sign
Phaistos 3 of 52 word-list documents with this sign
Iouktas 2 of 52 word-list documents with this sign
Petras 2 of 52 word-list documents with this sign
Tylissos 2 of 52 word-list documents with this sign
Apodoulou 1 of 52 word-list documents with this sign
Kophinas 1 of 52 word-list documents with this sign

12 of 17 sites with this sign in the word list listed.

Neighbours

Before it

AB28 i 11 of 36 cases in the word list
AB54 wa 3 of 36 cases in the word list
AB59 ta 2 of 36 cases in the word list
AB57 ja 2 of 36 cases in the word list
AB81 ku 2 of 36 cases in the word list

After it

AB06 na 8 of 44 cases in the word list
AB59 ta 8 of 44 cases in the word list
AB31 sa 3 of 44 cases in the word list
None 3 of 44 cases in the word list
AB73 mi 2 of 44 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.

pi SigLA sign list, Salgarella and Castellan (sigla.phis.me)
pi Project sign manifest (signs-manifest.json)
*28B Robert Hogan, lineara.xyz
? GORILA vol. 5 sign index, Linear B name column (Godart and Olivier 1985)
pi Project canonical sign data (sign_data.json, 2026-05-14)