Editing Linear A (section)

===Libation tables===
A group of Minoan finds, usually from sanctuaries, have traditionally been called libation tables. They come in full sized and miniature versions, usually of stone. Because of the findspots, at cultic sites like [[Mount Juktas]], they are usually assumed to be religious in nature though that is not certain.<ref>Metaxa-Muhly, Polymnia, "Linear A inscriptions from the Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Kato Syme", Kadmos, vol. 23, no. 1–2, pp. 124–135, 1984</ref> So far about 1000 libation tables have been recovered at 27 different sites on Crete, of which 41 have Linear A inscriptions.<ref name="Monti2022" >Monti, Orazio, "Some observations on the language of Linear A", Kadmos, vol. 61, no. 1–2, pp. 107–116, 2022</ref><ref>Driessen, Jan, "A fragmentary linear a inscription from petsophas, palaikastro (pk za 20)", Kadmos, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 149–152, 1994</ref><ref>C. Davaras and W. C. Brice, "A Fragment of a Libation Table Inscribed in Linear A from Vrysinas", Kadmos, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 5–6, 1977</ref> These inscriptions follow a standardized "libation formula", a formula also found on a few other objects, primarily vessels.<ref>Platon, Nikolas, "Inscribed libation vessel from a Minoan house at [[Prassa]], Heraklion", Minoica: Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von Johannes Sundwall, edited by Ernst Grumach, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 305–318, 1958</ref><ref>Davaras, Costis, "Three New Linear A Libation Vessel Fragments from Petsophas", Kadmos, vol. 20, no. 1–2, 1981, pp. 1–6, 1981</ref><ref>Stylianos Alexiou, W. Brice, "A Silver Pin from Platanos with an inscription in Linear A: Her. Mus. 498". Kadmos, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 18–27, 1976</ref><ref>Leinwand, Nancy Westneat, "A Ladle from Shaft Grave III at Mycenae", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 84, no. 4, pp. 519–21, 1980</ref>

The "libation formula" has been much studied.<ref>W. C. Brice, "The Minoan “Libation Formula”", Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 48.1 (1965)</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=Rose |title=Some reflections on morphology in the language of the Linear A libation formula |journal=Kadmos |date=1 December 2020 |volume=59 |issue=1–2 |pages=1–23 |doi=10.1515/kadmos-2020-0001 |s2cid=235451899 |url=https://www.finnishsyntax.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/01/Reflections_on_Morphology_in_the_Language_of_the_Linear_A_Libation_Formula.pdf |access-date= | issn=0022-7498 }}</ref> A similar construct in [[Cretan Hieroglyphs]], the "Archanes Formula", is the main proposed link to Linear&nbsp;A.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ferrara |first1=Silvia |last2=Montecchi |first2=Barbara |last3=Valério |first3=Miguel |title=What is the 'Archanes Formula'? Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Earliest Attestation of Writing in the Aegean |journal=Annual of the British School at Athens |date=December 2021 |volume=116 |pages=43–62 |doi=10.1017/S0068245420000155 |hdl=11585/833390 |s2cid=236307210 |url=https://flore.unifi.it/handle/2158/1265257 |access-date= |language=en |issn=0068-2454|hdl-access=free }}</ref>