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Sign

AB77

Catalogue ID
AB77
Conventional value
ka
Code point
U+1063E
Group in the sign list
Syllabogram Where it occurs, on lineara.eu

Scientific status

  • Identified sign

    Catalogued as AB77, conventionally read ka.

  • Enrica Patria proposes

    2 proposals recorded, kept apart from the conventional reading.

Attestations on this site

HT117a 1 attestationHT28a 1 attestation

  1. sign 2 of ma-ka-ri-teHT117a · I.1Open on the tablet
  2. sign 4 of a-si-ja-kaHT28a · 1Open on the tablet

Conventional reading

  1. Conventional

    AB77sign valueka

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

In Enrica Patria’s reading

  1. Enrica Patria proposes

    AB77functionlogogram KA

    KA “has also the following characteristic: when it has logographic value, the scribe often writes it smaller than the other signs” (Reading pp.12–13; cf. p.4; Sound and meaning p.10). It is the logogram of ka-na, written in full on HT23a (Reading p.13).

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 12Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 13Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 4Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10
  2. Enrica Patria proposes

    KAHT28a · 1functionlogogram

    On both sides of HT28, after A-si-ja, KA is written smaller than the other signs — which, for Patria, happens when KA has logographic value (Reading p.4).

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 4 (HT28, both sides)Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a heading)

Proposed meanings

  1. Proposed translation

    AB77meaningoffering; basket for offerings

    “Cryptographic analysis gives it the meaning of offering or, rather, basket for offerings” (Reading p.13); an abbreviation of Greek kánna or kanâ, ritual containers or baskets (Sound and meaning p.10).

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 13Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10
  2. Proposed translation

    KAHT28a · 1meaningofferings

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a heading)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28 heading)
SignAB77
  • documented relation
  • exists only in Enrica Patria's reading

Sources

Digital corpus

lineara.eu, “The signs” — AB77

Enrica Patria

Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it — p. 12; p. 13; p. 4; p. 4 (HT28, both sides); p. 16 (HT28a heading)Patria, Divinità minoiche, 2024 — p. 5 (HT28 heading)

Enrica Patria Pugliese

Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, 2025 — p. 10

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.