a-si-ja-ka — 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.
KA closes the conventional sign-group a-si-ja-ka, the heading of the tablet.
tablet · side A
HT28a
- 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
GORILA I facsimile
to be supplied
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Indicative frame: proportions, orientation and the position of any ruled line wait for the facsimile.
Analytic sign sequenceUnicode · not a facsimile
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
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.
5
2
1
1
Corpus layers differ at sign 2 of sa-*72: word list (SigLA): sa-*72, AB72 · sign-by-sign glyph string (lineara.xyz): sa-ra₂, AB76 — unresolved (lineara.eu)
2
3
6
5
2
3
10
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.
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Select a sign or a sign-group to separate what the edition records, the conventional transcription and what Enrica Patria proposes.
Signs on this tablet · = proposal by Enrica Patria · dashed = uncertain
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.
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) Enrica Patria proposes readingIáōn
Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28) 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.
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.
Enrica Patria proposes readingsalía
Patria, Reading Linear A before translating it, p. 16 (HT28a)Patria, Divinità minoiche, p. 5 (HT28) 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.
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) 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)
Why? · the argument, step by step
Why does Enrica Patria read KA logographically here?
Observed 01Observationa-si-ja-kaentry 1 Proposed 02Position / sizePatria 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 Proposed 03Comparison across tabletsKA 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) Proposed 04Ligature HOMO+KAThe 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) Proposed 05Patria's functionKA 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) Conventional 06Other / conventional viewka, final syllable of the sign-group a-si-ja-ka.
Proposed 07StatusEnrica Patria proposes Interpretive proposal. The reduced size of KA on HT28a is still to be checked on the facsimile.
- 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
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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.
- 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.
- Facsimile, photograph and dimensions of HT28 still to enter from the edition; hotspot coordinates.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sign data: conventional value of AB21f (the lineara.eu word list reads ja-qi), catalogue number of HOMO.
- Patria’s specific readings of the GRA, FIC and VIN entries are not given individually in the three publications.