Linear A Sign A362

No secure ancient meaning is known as of 2026.

A362 is a modern catalog label, not an ancient word or confirmed sound. The earliest reported occurrence is ZA 10b.1, a tablet from Zakros assigned to Late Minoan IB, a phase of Bronze Age Crete. A 2016 study reports A362 only at Zakros; a SigLA corpus snapshot dated 2026-09-07 lists it in one document, within a longer inscription.

Linear A was created on Crete under the influence of neighboring writing traditions. It served administration, including records of goods; formulaic inscriptions on offering tables and other objects belong to cultic or funerary settings. That context identifies where A362 appears, not what it says.

Is A362 a catalog label or a translation?

A362 is a catalog label, not a translated word.

Linear A is the name of a writing system created on Bronze Age Crete and influenced by scripts from nearby regions. Cretan Hieroglyphic was a related, contemporary system, not an established parent of Linear A; Linear B was later adapted from Linear A to write Mycenaean Greek.

A 2016 discussion compares A362's shape with Linear B B052, whose conventional syllabic value is written in Latin letters as “no,” and with Cretan Hieroglyphic 008, an open-palm form. The comparison does not establish that A362 meant “no” or “palm.” A font glyph is a cleaned-up reference drawing, while archaeological tracings preserve scribal variation; a different-looking trace is not automatically a different sign.