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Sign-group

ku-*56-nu

Conventional sign-group

A sequence of signs as the conventional transcription groups them — not a statement about words or language.

Signs as attested at HT117a · I.6

Scientific status

  • Enrica Patria proposes

    1 proposal recorded, kept apart from the conventional reading.

Attestations on this site

HT117a 1 attestation

  1. ku-*56-nuHT117a · I.6Open on the tablet

In Enrica Patria’s reading

  1. Enrica Patria proposes

    ku-*56-nuHT117a · I.6readingKábarnos

    Patria writes ku-pa3-nu (Divinità p.3; Reading p.17), with AB56 as pa3; the conventional transcription has ku-*56-nu. Singular Kábarnos (Divinità p.3); plural Kábarnoi (Reading p.17). Both cite Hesychius: kábarnoi · hiereîs Dḗmētros.

    Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 3 (HT117a, first list)Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 17 (HT117a, first list)

Proposed meanings

  1. Proposed translation

    ku-*56-nuHT117a · I.6meaninga priest of Demeter

    “un sacerdote di Demetra” (Divinità p.3); “priests of Demeter” (Reading p.17).

    Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 3 (HT117a, first list)Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 17 (HT117a, first list)
Sign-groupku-*56-nu
  • documented relation
  • exists only in Enrica Patria's reading

Sources

Enrica Patria

Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it — p. 17 (HT117a, first list)Patria, Divinità minoiche, 2024 — p. 3 (HT117a, first list)

Information still to be completed

  • Attestations are listed from the 2 sides on this site only; occurrences elsewhere in the Linear A corpus are not counted.