What 𐃆 means
It labels a spear as an item being counted.
In Linear B, ideograms label goods rather than spell sounds. The Knossos clay tablet catalogued as KN R 1815 lists 12 bronze-fitted spears; its first word is partly damaged. Linear B developed from Linear A, an earlier Aegean script, to record Mycenaean Greek, an early form of Greek. Surviving tablets date to the 14th–13th centuries BCE.
Which weapon sign is B230?
It is separate from the arrow and dart signs.
𐃇 is the arrow sign. Catalogues label 𐃘 as a dart; its javelin reading is less settled than B230’s spear reading.
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Who writes 𐃆
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1Why does 𐃆 show as a box?
The display is font-dependent: the selected font lacks a Linear B glyph. A font with Linear B coverage can display it.
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How to type or find 𐃆
- Also called
- B230 · *230 · HAS
- Search it as
- linear b spear · spear sign
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐃆\100C6Codes and encoding1 code points
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