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AB60 ra

Sign AB60 ra, tracing from ZA 9

Kind: syllabogram
Documents: in 101 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B: shares the shape, read RA there
Exemplar: exemplar from ZA 9

Three layers, three counts

Layer	Documents	Occurrences
Word list	99 of 701 documents with a word list	118 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text	95 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text	114 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings	72 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings	89 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 54 of 89 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Zakros 11 of 89 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Khania 7 of 89 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Knossos 6 of 89 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

KN 1b, line 1, amount 105
ja du ra ti e 105
KN Wc 30, line 1
? ja ra
KN Za 10
KN Zc 7
KN Zc 7
KN Zc 7

Phaistos 6 of 89 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Arkhanes 2 of 89 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

ARKH 1a
ARKH 2, line 2, amount 5
ku ra AB131b 5

Mallia 1 of 89 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

MA 2a, line 1, amount 5
? du ra 5

Palaikastro 1 of 89 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

PK 1

Psykhro 1 of 89 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

PS Za 2

89 of 89 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

Haghia Triada 46 of 99 word-list documents with this sign
Khania 8 of 99 word-list documents with this sign
Zakros 7 of 99 word-list documents with this sign
Iouktas 6 of 99 word-list documents with this sign
Knossos 6 of 99 word-list documents with this sign
Palaikastro 6 of 99 word-list documents with this sign
Phaistos 6 of 99 word-list documents with this sign
Syme 4 of 99 word-list documents with this sign
Arkhanes 2 of 99 word-list documents with this sign
Kophinas 1 of 99 word-list documents with this sign
Mallia 1 of 99 word-list documents with this sign
Platanos 1 of 99 word-list documents with this sign

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

Neighbours

Before it

AB31 sa 23 of 97 cases in the word list
AB08 a 10 of 97 cases in the word list
AB67 ki 7 of 97 cases in the word list
AB03 pa 7 of 97 cases in the word list
AB07 di 7 of 97 cases in the word list

After it

AB13 me 13 of 64 cases in the word list
AB24 ne 5 of 64 cases in the word list
AB27 re 4 of 64 cases in the word list
AB06 na 3 of 64 cases in the word list
None 3 of 64 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.

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