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AB81 ku

Sign AB81 ku, tracing from ARKH 6
Kind
syllabogram
Documents
in 274 of 1,817 documents with any sign
Linear B
shares the shape, read KU there
Exemplar
exemplar from ARKH 6

Three layers, three counts

LayerDocumentsOccurrences
Word list115 of 701 documents with a word list156 of 4,286 sure sign tokens in the word list
Sign-by-sign text263 of 1,707 documents with a sign-by-sign text306 of 6,688 sign tokens in the sign-by-sign text
SigLA tracings134 of 788 documents with SigLA tracings177 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 139 of 177 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Zakros 14 of 177 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Khania 8 of 177 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Knossos 5 of 177 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Arkhanes 3 of 177 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Phaistos 2 of 177 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Tylissos 2 of 177 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

GOURNIA 1 of 177 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

  • before: A704AB81 ku on GO 2aafter: AB09

    GO 2a

Mallia 1 of 177 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Papoura 1 of 177 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

Petras 1 of 177 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings

177 of 177 occurrences of this sign in the SigLA tracings shown.

Where it appears

By site, in the word list.

  • Haghia Triada 78 of 115 word-list documents with this sign
  • Zakros 12 of 115 word-list documents with this sign
  • Khania 7 of 115 word-list documents with this sign
  • Arkhanes 3 of 115 word-list documents with this sign
  • Knossos 3 of 115 word-list documents with this sign
  • Phaistos 2 of 115 word-list documents with this sign
  • Tylissos 2 of 115 word-list documents with this sign
  • Apodoulou 1 of 115 word-list documents with this sign
  • Kophinas 1 of 115 word-list documents with this sign
  • Larani 1 of 115 word-list documents with this sign
  • Mallia 1 of 115 word-list documents with this sign
  • Papoura 1 of 115 word-list documents with this sign

12 of 15 sites with this sign in the word list listed.

Neighbours

Before it

  • AB77 ka 7 of 52 cases in the word list
  • AB28 i 5 of 52 cases in the word list
  • AB01 da 5 of 52 cases in the word list
  • AB37 ti 3 of 52 cases in the word list
  • AB57 ja 3 of 52 cases in the word list

After it

  • AB02 ro 42 of 132 cases in the word list
  • AB56 14 of 132 cases in the word list
  • AB03 pa 14 of 132 cases in the word list
  • AB30 NI 8 of 132 cases in the word list
  • AB73 mi 6 of 132 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.

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