Linear A Sign A327

It may have had a syllabic role, but that is unproven.

A Linear A syllabogram represents a spoken syllable; a logogram stands for a word or recorded good. A 2024 analysis places A327 among signs that may appear in one or two syllable sequences, too few to establish what sound it carried.

What was Linear A used for?

It served record-keeping and dedications.

Clay tablets tracked goods moving into and out of storerooms. Stone offering tables from sanctuaries and objects from ritual or burial settings also carry inscriptions; their repeated formulas suggest religious use.

Linear A is attested by the end of the nineteenth century BCE and coexisted with Cretan Hieroglyphic, a separate Cretan script. By the beginning of the fifteenth century BCE it had become the main script across the Aegean. Linear B later reused much of its sign repertoire to write Mycenaean Greek, an early form of Greek.