Linear A Sign A623

A623 is a modern catalogue label, not a translated word. Linear A as a whole remains undeciphered; as of 2026, no secure sound or word meaning is assigned to A623.

SigLA, a specialist Linear A sign catalogue, and Unicode’s character chart relate A623 to 𐙖 (A302), 𐘿 (AB78), and 𐘆 (AB07). A specialist analysis also groups A609–A623 in a *302/OIL ligature series, a proposed class of combined signs. These catalogue relationships do not provide a secure pronunciation or translation.

Where was Linear A used?

Linear A was a locally developed writing system on Crete. It drew partly on Near Eastern writing principles and is attested from the 18th–14th centuries BCE. Early palace-era evidence clusters around Phaistos, then appears across Crete and the Aegean.

Clay tablets recorded goods moving through storerooms. Stone offering tables and objects from ritual or funerary settings preserve formulaic texts. Linear B later reused much of Linear A’s sign repertoire. Cretan Hieroglyphic shared some bookkeeping practices; some accounts also connect Linear A with later Cypriot syllabaries. Those are script-history relationships, not readings of A623.

What does 𐜘 mean when someone sends it?

A623 alone doesn’t identify the sender’s intended reference. Beside “A623,” it signals a catalogue identification; inside a transcription, it preserves a Linear A sign. If it arrives alone, ask what the sender is pointing to.

The available font draws its outline, so different fonts can give it a different appearance. A device without a font that covers Linear A may show a missing-glyph box. Normalization will not assemble A623 from A302, AB78, and AB07: those are separate characters, and their catalogue relationship is not a Unicode decomposition.