Linear B Syllable B005 To

It writes the syllable “to” in Linear B.

Linear B is a syllabary: each sign usually represents a syllable, so 𐀵 records a sound rather than naming an object or a complete word. In scholarly transliteration, its conventional value is to: a t consonant followed by an o vowel.

How did Linear B use this sign?

It served palace record-keeping in Mycenaean Greek.

Mycenaean scribes adapted the earlier Aegean script Linear A to write Greek. Linear B kept many signs but also changed or added forms. Its surviving texts are chiefly administrative records of goods, quantities, workers, and offerings on Crete and mainland Greece during ca. 1450–1150 BCE. The Iklaina fragment is the earliest known Linear B tablet from mainland Greece, dated ca. 1450–1400 BCE.

Does Linear A have a matching sign?

It has a counterpart, but not a confirmed shared sound.

The Linear A sign 𐘄 is catalogued as AB005. It shares the shape of 𐀵 and is proposed to have the value to.

Linear A remains undeciphered as of 2026-10-08, so that proposed reading is less certain than 𐀵’s conventional Linear B value.