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HT28a

Clay tablet · Haghia Triada, Crete · Late Minoan IB · side A · GORILA I (1976)

A clay tablet carrying sign-groups and numerals.

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Object
Clay tablet · HT28
Findspot
Haghia Triada, Crete
Period
Late Minoan IB
Side
A
Scribe
HT Scribe 13
Edition
GORILA I, Godart & Olivier, 1976
Signs
31, according to the digital corpus
HT28a
  1. Clay
  2. Signs
  3. Words
  4. Meaning
The object

Indicative frame: proportions, orientation and the position of any ruled line wait for the facsimile.

Analytic sign sequenceUnicode · not a facsimile

1
25
32
4
51
6
71
82
93
106
115
122
133
1410

Dashed box: uncertain or unidentified sign, or a ligature without a Unicode form. Plain box with a code: identified sign with no verified code point.

01 · Clay

Begin with the object.

A clay tablet.

Object
Clay tablet · HT28
Side
A
Findspot
Haghia Triada, Crete
Period
Late Minoan IB
Signs
31, according to the digital corpus

On this dark ground: only the object and its edition.

02 · Signs

What do we see?

Entry 1, enlarged: 4 signs. Shown in Unicode glyphs for analysis — compare them with the facsimile.

1
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Add, one at a time
The object — on the clay The reading — added by scholars

03 · Words · Read

Give the signs a sound.

The conventional transcription gives each sign a sound value, largely by correspondence with Linear B, and keeps the grouping of the edition. It suggests how the line may have sounded — not what it means.

Conventionallineara.eu

a-si-ja-ka·

04 · Words · Interpret Enrica Patria segments · reads

Where does one unit end and the next begin?

The conventional grouping stays where it is. The proposal below adds its own divisions, marked with a blue bar.

Conventional

a-si-ja-ka·

Enrica Patria segmentationa modern division

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Disputed.Patria writes “A-si-ja KA” (Reading p.16) / “A-si-jaKA” (Divinità p.5). No divider separates ja from ka in the conventional transcription.

UnitConventionalEnrica Patria reading
a-si-ja (inside a-si-ja-ka)Asía
ka (inside a-si-ja-ka)logogram

05 · Meaning in Enrica Patria’s reading

Only now does meaning enter — as a proposal.

A-si-ja[meaning — to enter]Asía
KA“offerings”
Proposed translation“offerings (KA) to Asía”Enrica Patria’s reading. “offerte (KA) ad Asía” (Divinità p.5). HT28a “records offerings to a deity” (Reading p.16).

06 · Explore freely

The whole tablet

Each row keeps things apart: the conventional sign-group, how Enrica Patria segments it, how she reads it, and its status. Select any sign or row.

The object

Indicative frame: proportions, orientation and the position of any ruled line wait for the facsimile.

Analytic sign sequenceUnicode · not a facsimile

1
25
32
4
51
6
71
82
93
106
115
122
133
1410

Dashed box: uncertain or unidentified sign, or a ligature without a Unicode form. Plain box with a code: identified sign with no verified code point.

SignsConventional transcriptionEnrica Patria segmentation · readingDisputed / uncertain
EntryConventionalSegm.ReadingStatusNum
1 A-si-ja | KA Asía + KADisputed
2 = conventionalIáōn 5
2 —[reading — to enter]
3 —a perfumed oil 2
4 —a perfumed oil
4 —[reading — to enter]
5 —a perfumed oil 1
6 —a perfumed oil
6 —[reading — to enter]
7 corpus layers differ= conventionalsalía 1
7 —[reading — to enter]
8 —[reading — to enter] 2
9 —[reading — to enter] 3
10 —[reading — to enter] 6
10 —[reading — to enter]
11 = conventionalAridḗla 5
11 —[reading — to enter]
12 —[reading — to enter] 2
13 —[reading — to enter] 3
14 = conventionalItaja 10
14 —[reading — to enter]

Entries in this site’s order; edition line numbers still to be aligned. A row with “—” has no alternative recorded; “[reading — to enter]” marks a reading not yet entered.

Named by Enrica Patria in the publications

Ia-wo2

Aligned with (entry 2)

Named by Patria as the first contributor, who offers five units of qeGRA: aligned with ja-*21f on line 2, followed by *578 (GRA | QE in the SigLA sign list) and the numeral 5. Alignment made on this site and confirmed on 4 October 2026; Patria does not give the line of the corpus transcription.

Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28)
  1. Enrica Patria proposes

    functionfirst contributor — offers five units of spiced wheat and several quantities of different perfumed oils

    The numeral is not bound to an occurrence on this site.

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28)
  2. Enrica Patria proposes

    readingIáōn

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28)
  3. Enrica Patria proposes

    personal nameIáōn

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28)

qeGRA

Aligned with (entry 2)

GRA qualified by QE (Divinità minoiche p.5: “GRA + QE”): aligned with *578 on line 2, which the SigLA sign list composes as AB120 (GRA) | AB78 (QE), followed by the numeral 5. Alignment made on this site and confirmed on 4 October 2026; Patria does not give the line of the corpus transcription.

Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28)
  1. Enrica Patria proposes

    commodityspiced wheat

    “spiced wheat (qeGRA)” (Reading p.16); “grano speziato (GRA + QE)” (Divinità p.5). QE “is used predominantly to indicate a spice, often in association with the grain logogram” (Sound and meaning p.11).

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28)Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 11 (QE (AB78))

sa-rja

Aligned with (entry 7)

Aligned with sa-*72 on line 7, which the lineara.xyz glyph string reads sa-ra₂, Patria’s own spelling of salía (Reading p.15; Sound and meaning p.8). Alignment made on this site and confirmed on 4 October 2026; Patria does not give the line of the corpus transcription.

Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28)
  1. Enrica Patria proposes

    readingsalía

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28)
  2. Proposed translation

    meaninga reserve of perfumed oil, figs and wine

    For sa-ra₂ = salía, “surplus, reserve, stock”, see Reading p.15 and Sound and meaning p.8.

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28)

HOMO+KA

Aligned with (entry 10)

The ligature as Patria prints it. The corpus transcription has no HOMO+KA: aligned with *568 on line 10, which the SigLA sign list composes as AB100 (VIR, a man) + AB77 (KA), followed by VIN and the numeral 6 — the six units of wine Patria gives the kanēphóroi. Alignment made on this site and confirmed on 4 October 2026; Patria does not give the line of the corpus transcription.

Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10 (HT28a,4)Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)
  1. Enrica Patria proposes

    functioncontributors — the kanēphóroi offer six units of wine

    “The kanēphóroi (HOMO+KA = bearers of KA offerings) are the first [of the other contributors] and offer six units of wine” (Reading p.16). The numeral is not bound to an occurrence on this site.

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28)
  2. Enrica Patria proposes

    identified asHOMO+KA

    Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10 (HT28a,4)Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)

07 · Why? · the argument, step by step

Why does Enrica Patria read KA logographically here?

  1. 01Observation

    KA closes the conventional sign-group a-si-ja-ka, the heading of the tablet.

    a-si-ja-kaentry 1
  2. 02Position / size

    Patria observes that on both sides of HT28, after A-si-ja, KA is written smaller than the other signs, and that KA is written smaller when it has logographic value.

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 4 (HT28, both sides)Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10
  3. 03Comparison across tablets

    KA is the logogram of ka-na, written in full at the head of HT23a. It is also written smaller in IKA (HT91,1; HT102,4), in KA du-ma-jo (HT29,6), in KA.DI (ZA15b,1) and on ZA4a,8.

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 4 (HT91,1; HT102,4; HT29,6; ZA15b)Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 13 (HT23a)Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10 (HT23a; IKA; ZA4a,8)
  4. 04Ligature HOMO+KA

    The same tablet carries HOMO+KA — a man carrying a KA in his hands — read as bearers of offerings, kanēphóroi; compare KApo-ru on HT115a,5.

    HOMO+KA

    Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10 (HT28a,4; HT115a,5)Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 13Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)
  5. 05Patria's function

    KA as a logogram for an offering, or rather a basket for offerings (Greek kánna or kanâ): A-si-ja | KA, “offerings to Asía”.

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 13Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a heading)Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, p. 10Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28 heading)
  6. 06Other / conventional view

    ka, final syllable of the sign-group a-si-ja-ka.

  7. 07Status
    Enrica Patria proposes

    Interpretive proposal. The reduced size of KA on HT28a is still to be checked on the facsimile.

  8. 08Sources

    Enrica Patria

    Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it — p. 12; p. 13; p. 4; p. 4 (HT28, both sides); p. 4 (HT91,1; HT102,4; HT29,6; ZA15b); p. 13 (HT23a); p. 13; p. 16 (HT28a); p. 13; 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; p. 10; p. 10 (HT23a; IKA; ZA4a,8); p. 10 (HT28a,4; HT115a,5); p. 10

08 · Network

Follow this tablet

Related records, from the claims on this page — not a chain of cause and effect.

TabletHT28a
  • documented relation
  • exists only in Enrica Patria's reading

Cite this tablet

HT28a, side A. Haghia Triada, Late Minoan IB. HT Scribe 13. Edition: GORILA I (Godart & Olivier, 1976). Object record v[—]. [permanent URL]

Cite this reading

Patria, E. “HT28a: a reading.” Reading v1, [year]. In Linear A — Research by Enrica Patria. [permanent URL]

Primary edition

GORILA I, Louis Godart & Jean-Pierre Olivier, 1976

Digital corpus

SigLA: The Signs of Linear A (Salgarella and Castellan)lineara.eulineara.xyz (Robert Hogan)lineara.eu, “The signs”

Enrica Patria

Patria, Reading Linear A before translating itPatria, Divinità minoiche, 2024

Enrica Patria Pugliese

Patria, Linear A between sound and meaning, 2025

Convention

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

Information still to be completed

Shown as visible placeholders, never filled in silently.

  1. SigLA readings, numerals, scribe and sign count are taken through lineara.eu (record built 2026-09-28); the SigLA document page was not consulted directly.
  2. Facsimile, photograph and dimensions of HT28 still to enter from the edition; hotspot coordinates.
  3. Line numbering: the entries 1–14 follow the lines of lineara.eu (from lineara.xyz). Patria cites HT28a in her own line numbering: HOMO+KA at HT28a,4 (Sound and meaning p.10), a-ru-da-ra at HT28a,5 (Reading p.3 n.7). GORILA line numbers are still to align.
  4. sa-*72: the SigLA word list (AB72, *72) and the lineara.xyz glyph string (AB76, ra₂) differ at sign 2, as lineara.eu reports; recorded as an unresolved conflict between corpus layers. The edition’s reading is still to verify.
  5. Alignment of Patria’s forms with the corpus transcription — Ia-wo2 with ja-*21f (line 2), qeGRA with *578 (2), sa-rja with sa-*72 (7), HOMO+KA with *568 (10), the perfumed oils with *610, *618, *622 and *621 (3–6) — made on this site from the composition of the signs in the SigLA sign list and from the numerals, confirmed on 4 October 2026; still to check with the author and the edition.
  6. Fraction signs J (A707, line 4) and L (A7092, line 6) are entered as signs. lineara.eu reads J as one half and leaves the value of L open; no value is entered here.
  7. Patria’s quantities (Iáōn: five units of qeGRA; the kanēphóroi: six units of wine — Reading p.16; Divinità minoiche p.5) are not bound to numeral occurrences.
  8. Sign data: conventional value of AB21f (the lineara.eu word list reads ja-qi), catalogue number of HOMO.
  9. Patria’s specific readings of the GRA, FIC and VIN entries are not given individually in the three publications.