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Sign

AB27

Catalogue ID
AB27
Conventional value
re
Code point
U+10619
Group in the sign list
Syllabogram Where it occurs, on lineara.eu

Scientific status

  • Identified sign

    Catalogued as AB27, conventionally read re.

  • Enrica Patria proposes

    2 proposals recorded, kept apart from the conventional reading.

Attestations on this site

HT117a 3 attestations

  1. sign 5 of mi-ru-ta-ra-reHT117a · I.9Open on the tablet
  2. sign 3 of te-*56-reHT117a · I.10Open on the tablet
  3. sign 3 of na-da-reHT117a · I.11Open on the tablet

Conventional reading

  1. Conventional

    AB27sign valuere

    Standard convention; a citable reference is still to be chosen.

In Enrica Patria’s reading

  1. Enrica Patria proposes

    AB27functionlogogram RE

    RE “certainly indicates a type of men since it recurs in congruent position with HOMO” (Reading p.13); it is among the logograms found in lists totalled with HOMO (HT27a, 89, 94a, 100; Reading p.11; Sound and meaning p.8). Conventionally re is a syllable.

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 13Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 11Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 8
  2. Enrica Patria proposes

    AB27related toReligious officials

    “certainly a high-ranking official” (Sound and meaning p.13); RE is “strettamente connesso con il culto” (Divinità p.4).

    Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 13Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 4

Proposed meanings

  1. Proposed translation

    AB27meaningattendant, priest or cult official

    “attendant” or “cult official” (Sound and meaning p.8); “'attendant', 'priest', or something comparable. He was certainly a high-ranking official” (p.13); “attendant, priest or something like that” (Reading p.14). Patria also notes that some RE compounds became personal names in Linear B (Pa-ja-ro, Te-ja-ro, A-ra-na-ro) and may be theophoric names (Reading p.14; Divinità p.4 n.18).

    Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 8Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 13Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 14Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 4

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

SignAB27
  • documented relation
  • exists only in Enrica Patria's reading

Sources

Digital corpus

lineara.eu, “The signs” — AB27

Enrica Patria

Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it — p. 13; p. 11; p. 14Patria, Divinità minoiche, 2024 — p. 4

Enrica Patria Pugliese

Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, 2025 — p. 8; p. 13

Convention

Standard convention; a citable reference is still to be chosen.

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.