HT117a
Read it layer by layer in the Experience, or every line and layer at once in the Scholar View.
- Object
- clay tablet · HT117, side A
- Findspot
- Haghia Triada, Crete
- Period
- Late Minoan IB
- Transcription
- Complete · 61 signs entered
- Scribe
- HT Scribe 9
A research project
Read it before
you translate it.
This site presents Linear A documents layer by layer. What is on the object is kept apart from what a reading adds, and every proposal by Enrica Patria is marked as hers, with the sources it rests on.
Explore the catalogue Discover the method
- The subject
- Linear A, through the documents gathered on this site: each object, side and sign with its record and its source.
- The method
- Classify every sign — image, word or sound — before attempting a translation.
- The rule
- What is on the clay and what is proposed are always shown apart.
On this site
What is Linear A?
The background — the history of the script, its relation to Linear B, the state of its decipherment — is not given here until it can be cited.
Linear A is the script written on the objects recorded here. Their records state:
- Types of object
- tablet
- Findspots
- Haghia Triada, Crete
- Periods
- Late Minoan IB
From the object records of the 2 objects on this site.
The central principle
Read before translating.
Layers, not pages. Every reading starts from the clay; each layer adds interpretation, and none replaces the one before it.
Original The object and its edition: facsimile and photograph.
Signs Signs identified by number, in groups and entries.
Transcription Conventional sound values, largely by correspondence with Linear B.
Segmentation Units as divided by Enrica Patria.
Interpretation Values and functions proposed by Enrica Patria.
Translation Proposed meanings — only now, and as a proposal.
Object and reading
The object sits in the vitrine. The reading happens on the page.
Glyphs and sign numbers only. No values, no words, no meaning.
Plaster · the reading
Conventional transcription - ma-ka-ri-te · ki-ro · u-mi-na-si
Enrica Patria · segmentationDisputed - MA | ka-ri-te · ki-ro · u-mi-na-si
Enrica Patria · reading - máter + khárites · khḗroi · úmnēsis
Proposed meaning - “Mother” + “thanksgivings” · “indebted (debtors)” · “hymn of praise / song of praise”
Only now does meaning enter — as a proposal.
Start with a tablet
The catalogue
Explore the catalogue
The data collected on this site: every object, with how much of each side is entered, and the signs of the Linear A sign list.
- Objects
- 2
- Signs catalogued
- 378
How the research is organised
Where things are
Catalogue
Objects, their sides and what each records, and the signs of Linear A, with links to every tablet and sign.
Signs & entities
Every sign, sign-group, name, divinity and concept has its own page — reached from any tablet or from the inspector.
Sources
Every statement carries its source; open data issues are shown, never filled in silently.
Method
The site’s editorial rules, and Enrica Patria’s method in her own words.
The hypothesis
Enrica Patria’s linguistic hypothesis, in her words and with her pages.
Papers
Her papers, each with a permanent page: abstract, how to cite it and, where the rights allow it, the PDF.
The researcher
Enrica Patria
The readings marked with
- Status
- Research proposal, open to discussion. Not the scholarly consensus.
Publications cited on HT117a
- Divinità minoiche— Enrica Patria
- Linear A between sound and meaning: Uncertain signs, logograms, and hybrid words— Enrica Patria Pugliese
- Reading Linear A before translating it— Enrica Patria
What her publications document about her, and what is not documented yet
Research transparency
A proposal never wears the clothes of a fact.
Every statement is marked by shape, typeface and colour together, so the distinction survives greyscale, colour-blindness, print and screen readers. Solid shapes are things you can check on the clay or in an edition. Diamonds are signed by Enrica Patria. Triangles warn.
Observed What is on the clay, or recorded by the edition: signs and sign numbers.
Conventional The conventional transcription: shared sound values, largely by correspondence with Linear B.
Enrica Patria proposes A proposal by Enrica Patria: segmentation, reading or function. Always signed.
Proposed translation A proposed meaning — only ever as a proposal.
Disputed / uncertain A warning: the reading is contested, or not settled.
Conventional / other reading The standard view, set beside a proposal and never mixed with it.
- Sources
Each claim names the publication, page and passage it rests on.
- Data gaps
What the site does not have yet is shown as an open issue — a gap, never a negative fact.