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Catalogue Entities Sign

Sign

AB80

Catalogue ID
AB80
Conventional value
ma
Code point
U+10641
Group in the sign list
Syllabogram Where it occurs, on lineara.eu

Scientific status

  • Identified sign

    Catalogued as AB80, conventionally read ma.

  • Enrica Patria proposes

    3 proposals recorded, kept apart from the conventional reading.

Attestations on this site

HT117a 3 attestations

  1. sign 1 of ma-ka-ri-teHT117a · I.1Open on the tablet
  2. sign 1 of ma-ruHT117a · I.5Open on the tablet
  3. sign 3 of tu-ju-maHT117a · I.7Open on the tablet

Conventional reading

  1. Conventional

    AB80sign valuema

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

In Enrica Patria’s reading

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)

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

SignAB80
  • documented relation
  • exists only in Enrica Patria's reading

Sources

Digital corpus

lineara.eu, “The signs” — AB80

Enrica Patria

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

Enrica Patria Pugliese

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

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.