Linear A sign AB079

As of 2026, AB 79 has no secure reading.

The earliest recognizable Linear A inscriptions are placed in Middle Minoan IIA, reaching the late nineteenth century BCE under the high chronology, and are more consistently attested in Middle Minoan IIB. Clay tablets, roundels (clay disks), and sealings served palace administration. Inscriptions on stone, metal, and painted vessels also had cultic or practical uses.

Cretan Hieroglyphic, a pictorial script, and Linear A overlapped during Middle Minoan II and III; Linear A became predominant in Late Minoan I. A comparison of sign shapes proposes Cretan Hieroglyphic CH 005, classified as an eye, as a possible predecessor of AB 79. That is a clue about script history, not a recovered reading.

Is AB 79 a word or a syllable?

Treat AB 79 as a catalog label, not an ancient word.

AB 79 is a scholarly inventory label for the sign. A sign's place in a sequence can support a syllabic interpretation, and comparison with Linear B can suggest a correspondence; neither settles this sign's reading. The language written in Linear A is unidentified as of 2026. In a transcription, keep the inventory label unless the edition explicitly marks a proposed reading.

A missing glyph is a font issue.

If your font cannot draw 𐙀, it may show a box or substitute outline. That display does not change which character the text contains.