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AB65 ju

Sign AB65 ju, tracing from ZA 9

Kind: syllabogram
Documents: in 31 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B: shares the shape, read JU there
Exemplar: exemplar from ZA 9

Three layers, three counts

Layer	Documents	Occurrences
Word list	28 of 701 documents with a word list Unsure: 1 of 701 documents with a word list	29 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list Unsure: 5 of 30 unsure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text	31 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text	36 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings	30 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings	35 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 17 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

HT 108
HT 109
HT 117a
HT 117b, line 2, amount 1
ku re ju 1
HT 119, line 9, amount 8
A327 ju 8
HT 122b
HT 20
HT 20
HT 25a, line 9, amount 1
? AB79 ju AB29 1
HT 34
HT 39, line 2, amount 8
? ku re ju 8
HT 68, line 1
? | ? ju | VIR ?
HT 80, line 2
? ju ra ?
HT 88
HT 93a
HT 97a
HT Zd 155, line 1
a ju | na ma ma ti ti A319

Zakros 7 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

ZA 11a
ZA 14, line 4, amount 8
qa ti ju 8
ZA 22
ZA 6a, line 2
AB34 ju te mi ?
ZA 6b
ZA 7a, line 1, amount 5
u ju 5
ZA 9

Tylissos 5 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Knossos 3 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Arkhanes 1 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

ARKH 4a

Papoura 1 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

PA 1, line 1, amount 35
a ku ju pa AB118 35

Phaistos 1 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

PH 2, line 3, amount 60
pi ru e ju 60

35 of 35 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

Haghia Triada 15 of 28 word-list documents with this sign
Zakros 6 of 28 word-list documents with this sign
Knossos 4 of 28 word-list documents with this sign
Arkhanes 1 of 28 word-list documents with this sign
Papoura 1 of 28 word-list documents with this sign
Phaistos 1 of 28 word-list documents with this sign

Neighbours

Before it

AB27 re 3 of 26 cases in the word list
None 2 of 26 cases in the word list
AB37 ti 2 of 26 cases in the word list
AB60 ra 2 of 26 cases in the word list
AB80 ma 2 of 26 cases in the word list

After it

AB04 te 2 of 12 cases in the word list
AB81 ku 2 of 12 cases in the word list
AB80 ma 1 of 12 cases in the word list
AB10 u 1 of 12 cases in the word list
AB29 pu2 1 of 12 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.

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