Projects / Linear A
The signs survive. Their reading remains open.
A script still waiting to be read.
The question behind Linear A
Linear A was used in Bronze Age Crete and elsewhere in the Aegean, for accounts and other short inscriptions. Ester Salgarella’s overview describes an undeciphered script recording a poorly understood language. Short, formulaic and often damaged texts limit what can be inferred. A repeated pattern may suggest a question to test on other texts; it does not, by itself, establish a translation.
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- Ester Salgarella: Linear A
Cambridge’s accepted-version record for the Oxford Classical Dictionary overview, covering uses of the script and limits of the surviving evidence. The record is marked all rights reserved; linked for consultation, with no article or source images reproduced here.
- SigLA: the signs of Linear A
Ester Salgarella and Simon Castellan’s palaeographical database. Dataset and drawings use CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; the noncommercial restriction needs review before reuse in a funded or commercial service. No dataset or drawings are reproduced here.