# \*309

> Linear A logogram *309, speculative: round (loaf/disc/talent-weight); on TY2 most plausibly bread-rounds in ration quantities.

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**Status: speculative.** A speculative value.

## Logogram

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Gloss | round (loaf/disc/talent-weight); on TY2 most plausibly bread-rounds in ration quantities |
| Commodity | KIKKARU |
| Semitic term | Hebrew kikkār 'round loaf, talent, disc' (kikkar leḥem Exod 29:23, 1 Sam 2:36); Akkadian kakkaru; Ugaritic kkr 'talent' |
| Root | k-k-r |

### Note

Circle-based sign family, site-unique to TY2 (11 tokens): plain circle = \*309, interior-marked variants = \*309B/\*309C (SigLA drawing). Pictograph matches the word's core sense—kikkār is 'a round.' Phonetic-spelling anchor: KE-KI-RU = kikkaru Probable 0.7 at HT94b. B carries the largest counts (500, 250); C takes 17\[ \] and 30, but plain \*309 takes the smallest counts (10, 6), so the variants are not a size grade on this evidence. Ration arithmetic sane: Σ\*309 = 1,413 rounds (1,333 if line 5 reads 80) vs VIR+\[?\] 84 ≈ 17 per man; as metal talents 500 units ≈ 15 tons, implausible at Tylissos. Suffix strings form two families (-PU set: \*34-PU-PI/KI-PU/DA-PU; -JU set: JU-KI/RI-JU/DA-\[?\]-JU/\[?\]-WA-JU), qualifiers unresolved. Prior v3 phonetic solver: no signal.

## Linked from

- [Logograms](<https://linear-a.ai/wiki/lexicon/signs/logograms/index.md>)

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