Editing Linear A (section)

===Sealed documents===
[[File:Minoan inscriptions, Linear A script, Phaistos, 1850-1450 BC, AMH, 144885.jpg|thumb|Minoan inscriptions, Linear A script, Phaistos]]
Seals and clay sealings served the same role of inventory control and ownership as in the ancient Near East and Egypt. Large numbers of sealings have been found, primarily on Crete and in the Late Minoan IB period. The primary sources of sealed documents come from Haghia Triada (1103), Zakros (560), Khania (210), Knossos (125), Phaistos (35), [[Malia (archaeological site)|Malia]] (6), and Tylissos (5).<ref>{{cite journal |last=Schoep |first=Ilse |title=Tablets and Territories? Reconstructing Late Minoan IB Political Geography through Undeciphered Documents |journal=[[American Journal of Archaeology]] |volume=103 |number=2 |pages=201–221 |year=1999 |jstor=506745 |doi=10.2307/506745|s2cid=155632843 | issn=0002-9114  }}</ref><ref>Weingarten, Judith, "Seal-use at LM IΒ Ayia Triada: a Minoan elite in action I. Administrative considerations", Kadmos 26.1, pp. 1–43, 1987</ref><ref>Massimo Perna, "The Roundels of Haghia Triada", Kadmos, 33, pp. 93–141 1994</ref> It is not clear what was commonly used to impress the sealing as only a few Linear A inscribed "[[Stamp seal|seal stones]]" have been found. In other regions cylinder seals and stamp seals fulfilled this role.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Civitillo |first1=Matilde |title=Comparing Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A seal stones: a preliminary assessment of forms, materials, sequences, uses |journal=Ariadne Supplement Series |date=2023 |url=https://iris.unicampania.it/handle/11591/490030 |access-date= |issn=2623-4726}}</ref>

Sealed documents are divided by archaeologists into four classes:<ref name="Salgarella2019" />
*Roundels – disks of clay with sealing on the edges<ref>Erik Hallager, ''The Minoan Roundel and Other Sealed Documents in the Neopalatial Linear A Administration'', Peeters Publishers, 31 Dec 1996 {{ISBN|9789042924130}}</ref>
*Hanging nodules – sealed lumps of clay originally attached to string<ref>[https://tidsskrift.dk/MoDIA/article/download/127043/173380] Tsipopoulou, Metaxia, and Erik Hallager, "The nodules and their types-definitions and discussions", ''Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens'' (''MoDIA'') 9, pp. 182–194, 2010</ref>
*Parcel nodules – lumps of clay with sealing on back
*Noduli – clay lumps like hanging nodules but not formerly string attached