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AB80 ma

Sign AB80 ma, tracing from ZA 10b

Kind: syllabogram
Documents: in 102 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B: shares the shape, read MA there
Exemplar: exemplar from ZA 10b

Three layers, three counts

Layer	Documents	Occurrences
Word list	96 of 701 documents with a word list	114 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text	96 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text	119 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings	73 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings	92 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 50 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Zakros 19 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Phaistos 7 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

PH 15a, line 1, amount 11
? ma te re A339 11 ?
PH 30
PH 31a
PH 31b
PH 7a, line 4
? ja ru ma ne ?
PH Wc 38, line 1
A314 ta ma
PH Wc 40a

Khania 5 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

KH 14
KH 61
KH 62, line 2
? ma ?
KH 88, line 1, amount 10
qa nu ma | AB21f AB118 | ni/FIC 10
KH 90

Palaikastro 3 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Knossos 2 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Mallia 2 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

MA 1b, line 1
a ma | AB47
MA 2c, line 2, amount 6
? ja ma u ti 6

Gournia 1 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

GO Wc 1a, line 1
a sa su ma i se

Haghios Stephanos 1 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

HS Zg 1, line 1
a ma

Petras 1 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

PE 6

Pyrgos 1 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

PYR 1

92 of 92 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

Haghia Triada 40 of 96 word-list documents with this sign
Zakros 13 of 96 word-list documents with this sign
Phaistos 11 of 96 word-list documents with this sign
Khania 5 of 96 word-list documents with this sign
Iouktas 3 of 96 word-list documents with this sign
Knossos 3 of 96 word-list documents with this sign
Arkalochori 2 of 96 word-list documents with this sign
Kophinas 2 of 96 word-list documents with this sign
Mallia 2 of 96 word-list documents with this sign
Palaikastro 2 of 96 word-list documents with this sign
Apodoulou 1 of 96 word-list documents with this sign
Arkhanes 1 of 96 word-list documents with this sign

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

Neighbours

Before it

AB26 ru 10 of 78 cases in the word list
AB06 na 8 of 78 cases in the word list
AB08 a 6 of 78 cases in the word list
AB31 sa 6 of 78 cases in the word list
AB55 nu 6 of 78 cases in the word list

After it

AB07 di 7 of 77 cases in the word list
AB37 ti 7 of 77 cases in the word list
AB28 i 6 of 77 cases in the word list
AB27 re 6 of 77 cases in the word list
AB04 te 5 of 77 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.

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