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Signs

AB55 nu

Sign AB55 nu, tracing from KH 88
Kind
syllabogram
Documents
in 57 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B
shares the shape
Exemplar
exemplar from KH 88

Three layers, three counts

LayerDocumentsOccurrences
Word list54 of 701 documents with a word list Unsure: 1 of 701 documents with a word list60 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list Unsure: 1 of 30 unsure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text53 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text59 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings40 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings45 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 26 of 45 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Zakros 6 of 45 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Knossos 5 of 45 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Khania 4 of 45 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Mallia 2 of 45 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Arkhanes 1 of 45 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Phaistos 1 of 45 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

45 of 45 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

  • Haghia Triada 24 of 54 word-list documents with this sign
  • Zakros 6 of 54 word-list documents with this sign
  • Knossos 5 of 54 word-list documents with this sign
  • Iouktas 3 of 54 word-list documents with this sign
  • Khania 3 of 54 word-list documents with this sign
  • Arkhanes 2 of 54 word-list documents with this sign
  • Mallia 2 of 54 word-list documents with this sign
  • Phaistos 2 of 54 word-list documents with this sign
  • Crete 1 of 54 word-list documents with this sign
  • Kamilari 1 of 54 word-list documents with this sign
  • Kardamoutsa 1 of 54 word-list documents with this sign
  • Palaikastro 1 of 54 word-list documents with this sign

12 of 15 sites with this sign in the word list listed.

Neighbours

Before it

  • AB56 9 of 49 cases in the word list
  • AB73 mi 8 of 49 cases in the word list
  • AB37 ti 4 of 49 cases in the word list
  • AB28 i 4 of 49 cases in the word list
  • AB67 ki 2 of 49 cases in the word list

After it

  • AB80 ma 6 of 36 cases in the word list
  • AB04 te 5 of 36 cases in the word list
  • AB37 ti 4 of 36 cases in the word list
  • AB40 wi 2 of 36 cases in the word list
  • AB27 re 2 of 36 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.

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