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AB69 tu

Sign AB69 tu, tracing from KH 57

Kind: syllabogram
Documents: in 68 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B: shares the shape, read TU there
Exemplar: exemplar from KH 57

Three layers, three counts

Layer	Documents	Occurrences
Word list	64 of 701 documents with a word list	73 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text	63 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text	73 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings	52 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings	63 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 43 of 63 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Zakros 8 of 63 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

ZA 12b, line 2, amount 6
? tu ? 6 ?
ZA 14, line 6, amount 45
tu mi ti za se 45 ?
ZA 20
ZA 20
ZA 4a
ZA 7a, line 2, amount 4
a ra tu 4
ZA 7a, line 3
a re tu mi ?
ZA 8

Khania 5 of 63 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

KH 2
KH 51, line 3
tu ?
KH 57, line 2
? tu ?
KH 7b
KH 91, line 8, amount K
tu K

Palaikastro 2 of 63 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

PK 1
PK 1

Phaistos 2 of 63 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

PH 2, line 1, amount 1
a se tu AB21f 1
PH 31b

Arkhanes 1 of 63 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

ARKH 6, line 1
da na tu | ku ?

Knossos 1 of 63 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

KN Zb 5, line 1
a tu ri si ti |

Tylissos 1 of 63 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

TY 3a

63 of 63 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

Haghia Triada 39 of 64 word-list documents with this sign
Zakros 5 of 64 word-list documents with this sign
Khania 4 of 64 word-list documents with this sign
Palaikastro 3 of 64 word-list documents with this sign
Phaistos 2 of 64 word-list documents with this sign
Apodoulou 1 of 64 word-list documents with this sign
Arkhanes 1 of 64 word-list documents with this sign
Iouktas 1 of 64 word-list documents with this sign
Kardamoutsa 1 of 64 word-list documents with this sign
Knossos 1 of 64 word-list documents with this sign
Kophinas 1 of 64 word-list documents with this sign
Larani 1 of 64 word-list documents with this sign

12 of 16 sites with this sign in the word list listed.

Neighbours

Before it

AB06 na 7 of 46 cases in the word list
A306 5 of 46 cases in the word list
AB21 QI 4 of 46 cases in the word list
AB04 te 4 of 46 cases in the word list
AB41 si 4 of 46 cases in the word list

After it

AB13 me 6 of 44 cases in the word list
AB24 ne 4 of 44 cases in the word list
AB03 pa 3 of 44 cases in the word list
AB26 ru 3 of 44 cases in the word list
AB58 su 3 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.

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