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Signs

AB57 ja

Sign AB57 ja, tracing from MA 4b
Kind
syllabogram
Documents
in 132 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B
shares the shape, read JA there
Exemplar
exemplar from MA 4b

Three layers, three counts

LayerDocumentsOccurrences
Word list124 of 701 documents with a word list Unsure: 2 of 701 documents with a word list163 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list Unsure: 2 of 30 unsure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text125 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text169 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings76 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings95 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 42 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Knossos 17 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Phaistos 10 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Zakros 8 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Khania 7 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Mallia 3 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Arkhanes 2 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Psykhro 2 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Syme 2 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Kea 1 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Palaikastro 1 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

95 of 95 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

  • Haghia Triada 35 of 124 word-list documents with this sign
  • Knossos 16 of 124 word-list documents with this sign
  • Palaikastro 11 of 124 word-list documents with this sign
  • Iouktas 9 of 124 word-list documents with this sign
  • Phaistos 9 of 124 word-list documents with this sign
  • Khania 8 of 124 word-list documents with this sign
  • Syme 7 of 124 word-list documents with this sign
  • Zakros 7 of 124 word-list documents with this sign
  • Mallia 4 of 124 word-list documents with this sign
  • Arkhanes 3 of 124 word-list documents with this sign
  • Apodoulou 2 of 124 word-list documents with this sign
  • Petras 2 of 124 word-list documents with this sign

12 of 23 sites with this sign in the word list listed.

Neighbours

Before it

  • AB54 wa 14 of 100 cases in the word list
  • AB03 pa 10 of 100 cases in the word list
  • AB28 i 8 of 100 cases in the word list
  • None 5 of 100 cases in the word list
  • AB53 ri 5 of 100 cases in the word list

After it

  • AB31 sa 18 of 95 cases in the word list
  • AB27 re 8 of 95 cases in the word list
  • AB03 pa 6 of 95 cases in the word list
  • AB07 di 5 of 95 cases in the word list
  • AB41 si 5 of 95 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.

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