Linear A Sign A309A

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What does 𐙝 mean?

It is a catalog label, not a decoded word or sound. As of 2026, no established reading or translation is known for 𐙝. A309a is the sign's inventory identifier; the label identifies a sign, not what it said.

Its archaeological setting cannot supply a reading

Corpus discussions associate A309a, A309b, and A309c with tablets from Tylissos dating to Late Minoan IB. That places these inventory signs in a particular group of records; it does not reveal their meaning.

Using the earlier high chronology, Linear A is attested by the end of the nineteenth century BCE, in a phase archaeologists call Middle Minoan IIA. It appears more consistently in Middle Minoan IIB and becomes the predominant script in the Aegean during Late Minoan I. These are archaeological periods, not stages in this sign's reading. Linear A appears on clay tablets, roundels (clay discs), and sealings (clay pieces bearing seal impressions) tied to administration and economic transactions. Inscriptions on offering tables, pottery, metal, and other objects served cultic or practical settings.

Linear A coexisted on Crete with Cretan Hieroglyphic, another writing system; shared-looking forms do not establish direct descent. During the second millennium BCE, Linear B adapted much of Linear A's sign inventory to write Greek. A Linear B sign's known sound value cannot automatically be assigned to 𐙝.