# PK Za 4

A Linear A inscription carved again in 3D: steatite conical cup from Palaikastro.

- Object: Steatite conical cup
- Site: Palaikastro
- Edition: GORILA IV, 23
- Original: Heraklion Archaeological Museum (HM 504)

## Text

1. [A-SA-SA-RA-…](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>)

## Proposed translation

A-SA-SA-RA[…].

## Lexicon entries here

- [A-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>) (ʾaššaram): uprightly, in righteousness (variant of yaššaram, ʾa- for ya-). Confirmed.

## Remarks

A steatite conical cup with A-SA-SA-RA[ cut below the rim; the cup breaks right after RA, so the ending is lost. A-SA-SA-RA-ME, complete on IO Zb 10, and the recurring JA-SA-SA-RA-ME make A-SA-SA-RA-[ME] the likely restoration, but it is not on the stone. The stand-in is a whole cup with a piece of the rim broken away after RA; its proportions and size are its own. Generated stand-in, not a scan: the shape follows the published description, the sign layout is approximate.

## 3D model

Created at Plasma AI. Template model generated in the browser; texts after the project dossier and GORILA. Glyphs: Noto Sans Linear A (OFL), re-cut stroke by stroke.

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Page: https://linear-a.ai/inscriptions/tpl-pk-za-4/
Licence: CC BY 4.0 for the translations and commentary; the corpus keeps its sources’ terms, SigLA’s records CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.