Linear A sign A349

It has no secure reading.

A349 is a catalogue label from GORILA, a scholarly listing of Linear A signs, not a translated word. On the KH11 inscription, it occurs inside the damaged sequence A-TO-*349-TO-I; that position identifies where it sits, but gives no secure sound or meaning.

Use A349 to identify the sign; a sequence position is evidence about the writing, not a standalone gloss.

How did Linear A develop on Crete?

It developed on Crete and later supplied signs to Linear B.

Linear A's earliest attestation is placed in Middle Minoan IIA, and examples become more consistently attested in Middle Minoan IIB. These dates describe the script, not A349's first appearance.

Linear A served practical record-keeping and ritual or elite inscription. Most surviving texts are administrative records about commodities; others appear on offering tables or objects from ritual and funerary contexts. Cretan Hieroglyphic was partly contemporary, without a proven parent relationship for each sign. Linear B later inherited much of Linear A's repertoire, but that does not settle A349's reading.

Is 𐚉 really the Linear B JO sign?

Not securely.

One proposed reading compares the wavy mark in KH11 with the Linear B syllable JO. The same discussion leaves alternatives: it may be a variant, damage, or a mistaken identification.

These are paleographic readings—attempts to identify how an inscribed sign was written—not a settled match. Do not present JO or WE as translations.