Linear A Sign A805

𐝥 belongs to Linear A, the undeciphered Minoan script used on Bronze Age Crete and nearby Aegean islands. “A805” is a modern catalogue label; it does not tell us what the sign represented.

Text symbol

What 𐝥 means

No reading has been established for A805.

“A805” is a modern catalogue label, not an ancient word. The Linear A corpus index, built 2026-09-07, lists three appearances in word sequences but proposes no value.

Linear A is attested from the 18th to 14th centuries BCE. It seems to have developed on Crete: early examples at Phaistos predate its spread across Crete and the Aegean. Clay records tracked goods; formulaic inscriptions on sanctuary offering tables suggest religious use. Linear A overlapped with Cretan Hieroglyphic, a separate script; similar bookkeeping forms suggest exchange. Linear B, used to write early Greek, later adapted its system.

Part of the collection

𐘀

Linear A, Cypriot & Aegean Scripts

Who writes 𐝥

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Questions people ask

Why does 𐝥 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Linear A block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.