Tablet · Haghia Triada

HT 126b

Site
Haghia Triada
Object
Tablet
Period
LM IB
Scribe
—
Findspot
Casa del Lebete
Edition
GORILA I

Text5 lines

Linear ATransliteration
  1. 1*3053
  2. 26TWE4OVISf[
  3. 3[…]
  4. 4TWE]-TU6
  5. 5[…]

TranslationCandidate

[Personnel category]: 3; [lost category]: 6; [TWE category]: 4; ewes: [quantity lost]; [TWE category: quantity lost]; cattle/bulls(?): 6.

Word by word6 words

  • ]*305 3[personnel category] 3[personnel category]: 3Confirmed
  • ]6[lost category]: 6
  • TWE 4[TWE category]: 4
  • OVISf[ewe(s)ewes: [quantity lost]Confirmed
  • ]TWE[[TWE category: quantity lost]
  • ]TU 6ṯawrcattle/bulls(?): 6Candidate

Commentary

Reverse of HT 126. GORILA I 217 and the photograph show extensive loss along the left and lower edges; the lower field is missing. The text is a fragmentary administrative list rather than continuous prose.

Epigraphic note

GORILA I 217: reverse of the broken HT 126 tablet. Preserved entries are ]*305 3; ]6 TWE 4 · OVISf[; ]vest.[; ]TWE[; ]TU 6; the lower field is lost. GORILA I 217 and the photograph show loss along the left and lower edges. This is an administrative list, not continuous prose. *305 is a counted personnel category whose exact class remains unknown. AB87/TWE functions as a quantified logogram here, but its referent is unresolved. The animal sign on b.2 is OVISf, ‘ewe,’ not syllabographic *21F=/ha/; its quantity is lost. The second TWE likewise lacks its quantity. Final ]TU 6 occurs in the same animal-register context and is compatible with the candidate TU logogram ‘bull/cattle’ (< Semitic *ṯawru), but the initial break requires the reading to remain tentative.

Linear A Lexicon