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Sign-group

ma-ka-ri-te

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.1

Scientific status

  • Enrica Patria proposes

    5 proposals recorded, kept apart from the conventional reading.

  • Disputed

    1 of these proposals is disputed or uncertain.

Attestations on this site

HT117a 1 attestation

  1. ma-ka-ri-teHT117a · I.1Open on the tablet

In Enrica Patria’s reading

  1. Enrica Patria proposesDisputed

    ma-ka-ri-teHT117a · I.1segmentationMA | ka-ri-te

    Patria writes the heading “MA ka-ri-te . ki-ro . u-mi-na-si” (Reading p.16; Divinità p.3). No divider separates MA from ka-ri-te in the conventional transcription. Elsewhere (Reading p.3) she cites the group as ma-ka-ri-te (HT87,1-2 and 117a,1) while discussing the notched sign read ri.

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT117a heading)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 3 (HT117a heading)Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10 (HT117a heading)
  2. Enrica Patria proposes

    MAHT117a · I.1functionlogogram

    “MA is the logogram of mάter, epithet of the Great Goddess, see HT117a,1” (Reading p.12).

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 12 (HT117a,1)Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10 (HT117a)
  3. Enrica Patria proposes

    MAHT117a · I.1readingmáter

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT117a heading)Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 12 (HT117a,1)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 3 (HT117a heading)Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10 (HT117a)
  4. Enrica Patria proposes

    ka-ri-teHT117a · I.1readingkhárites

    Nominative plural of kháris.

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT117a heading)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 3 (HT117a heading)Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10 (HT117a)
  5. Enrica Patria proposes

    MAHT117a · I.1identified asGreat Mother

    An epithet of the Great Mother (Reading p.16; Divinità p.3: “epiteto della Gran madre”); “one of the epithets of the supreme goddess of the Minoan pantheon” (Sound and meaning p.10).

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT117a heading)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 3 (HT117a heading)Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10 (HT117a)

Proposed meanings

  1. Proposed translation

    MAHT117a · I.1meaningMother

    Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10 (HT117a)
  2. Proposed translation

    ka-ri-teHT117a · I.1meaningthanksgivings

    “thanksgivings” (Sound and meaning p.10); “thanks” (Reading p.16); “ringraziamenti” (Divinità p.3).

    Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10 (HT117a)Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT117a heading)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 3 (HT117a heading)

The relation rests on a proposal, or the record exists only in a proposed reading.

Sign-groupma-ka-ri-te
  • documented relation
  • exists only in Enrica Patria's reading

Sources

Enrica Patria

Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it — p. 16 (HT117a heading); p. 12 (HT117a,1)Patria, Divinità minoiche, 2024 — p. 3 (HT117a heading)

Enrica Patria Pugliese

Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, 2025 — p. 10 (HT117a heading); p. 10 (HT117a)

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.