Linear A Sign A535

A535 is a catalog label, not a translation. It lets modern readers identify the sign; it does not tell us the ancient word or pronunciation. The earliest evidence assigned to Linear A is placed in Middle Minoan IIA, with more regular attestations in Middle Minoan IIB.

Linear A also appears on stone offering tables, metal pins, and pots. Cretan Hieroglyphic, another Cretan script, overlapped with Linear A during the Bronze Age and may have influenced some of its sign shapes. In tablet HT 38, one scholarly analysis identifies compound sign A535 as TELA + KU: a sign for cloth paired with a syllabic sign. Its related sign A536 uses TELA + ZO; both compound patterns also occur in Linear B. Linear B reused many Linear A syllabic signs to write Mycenaean Greek, while most Linear A word signs did not carry over.

How can I type Linear A?

Use Unicode text. If your device has a Unicode character picker, use it; otherwise choose an input method that inserts the Linear A character rather than a drawing.

A 2015 paper on the Linear A digital corpus describes older fonts that drew signs over Latin keyboard letters. The stored text was Latin, not Unicode Linear A, so a sign could look right but fail to remain A535 when shared.