Linear A Sign AB065

It has no securely translated meaning. The language written in Linear A remains undeciphered as of 2026, so no known word can be assigned to AB065. Comparison with Linear B suggests the reading ju; the parallel sign is 𐀎. That gives scholars a tentative syllable value, not a translation. Alone in a modern message, it most safely signals a reference to Linear A.

Secure Linear A writing is attested from Middle Minoan IIA, with more regular evidence in Middle Minoan IIB. Some scholars classify earlier seals from Archanes as early Linear A, but most palaeographic work assigns them to Cretan Hieroglyphic, another Cretan script.

Linear A was used for practical records as well as a smaller number of ritual or votive inscriptions—offerings—on vessels and metal objects. Most surviving records are administrative: clay tablets, small clay discs called roundels, and clay sealings impressed with stamps. Linear A became predominant in the Aegean during Late Minoan I. Linear B later adapted much of its graphic repertoire for Mycenaean Greek, so a shared shape does not guarantee the same sound or meaning.

Can AB065 be read as ju?

As a proposed reading, yes; as a translation, no. The sound label ju comes from comparing AB065 with its Linear B counterpart, 𐀎. Linear B was used to write Mycenaean Greek; Linear A records a different, still-undeciphered language. The comparison helps scholars transliterate AB065 without claiming to know its meaning.

On tablet TY 2, AB065 appears in sequences such as ri-da-65 and ri-da-wa-65 beside the A309b/c ideogram. That neighboring sign is interpreted as a round object, probably a vessel, so the full sequence may name the object; AB065 alone does not mean “vessel.”