*82

Status: speculative. A speculative value.

Phonetic value

Forms cited for the value

• Speculative: SI2, a duplicate sibilant (standard SI = AB41 remains in use).
• E-*82 (ZA4a, 50-unit bulk slot in the Zakros wine dossier) = 'asi(s) 'new wine, must'—E carries guttural onset 'a-, SI2 carries /sis/ with final sibilant unwritten
• Standalone *82 on KHWa 1003/1004 nodules = commodity logogram abbreviating 'asis (guttural-skipping abbreviation: first consonantal sign, NI-for-figs dual-function pattern)
• Complementary distribution, as with GRA+KU: full spelling E-*82 in ledger context, bare *82 on sealings, never co-occurring
• Rival value: a pha-type labial aspirate (pe-re-*82 = *Perspha, Persephatta stem; Linear A E-*82 then reads epa 'ephah measure')
• Cross-script picture: LB *82 = swa (Chadwick, Minos 9, 1968) refined by Melena to {twa} with tw>sw assibilation (On the Structure of the Mycenaean Linear B Syllabary I, section 16)—NON-CIRCULAR support from the pi-*82 ~ pi-sa-wa-ta doublet and the toponym family (Pitwa>Pisa, Krithwa>Krisa, Litwa>Lisa); the sibilant/dental family is coherent with SI2 and weighs AGAINST the pha rival in LB (Judson's circularity note applies only to the Persephone-based argument)