๐’Š•


๐’Š• U+12295, 𒊕
CUNEIFORM SIGN SAG
โ† ๐’Š”
[U+12294]
Cuneiform ๐’Š– โ†’
[U+12296]

Translingual

Glyph origin

The character in archaic linear script.[1]

  1. the pictogram as it was drawn around 3000 B.C.E.;
  2. the rotated pictogram as written around 2800 B.C.E.;
  3. the abstracted glyph in archaic monumental inscriptions, from ca. 2600 B.C.E.;
  4. the sign as written in clay, contemporary to stage 3;
  5. late 3rd millennium (Neo-Sumerian);
  6. Old Assyrian, early 2nd millennium, as adopted into Hittite;
  7. simplified sign as written by Assyrian scribes in the early 1st millennium.

Cuneiform sign

๐’Š• Sign Number
MZL 184
Deimel 115
HZL 192
Components
๐’ƒฐ, ๐’น, ๐’„‘

Derived signs

References

  1. Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernst Alfred Wallis) (1922) A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquitiesโ€Ž, [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees, page 22
  • R. Borger, Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon (MZL), Mรผnster (2003)
  • A. Deimel, ล umerisches Lexikon (Deimel), Rome (1947)
  • Chr. Rรผster, E. Neu, Hethitisches Zeichenlexikon (HZL), Wiesbaden (1989)

Akkadian

Sign values

Sign ๐’Š•
Sumerograms SAG
Phonetic values ris, riลก, sag/sak/saq, san, ลกag/ลกak/ลกaq

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Sumerian ๐’Š• (sagฬƒ, โ€œheadโ€).

Logogram

๐’Š• โ€ข (SAG)

  1. Sumerogram of pลซtum (โ€œforehead, frontโ€)
  2. (rare) Sumerogram of qaqqadum (โ€œhead, top, personโ€)
  3. Sumerogram of rฤ“ลกtum (โ€œbeginningโ€)
  4. Sumerogram of rฤ“ลกum (โ€œhead, top, slaveโ€)

Sumerian

Noun

๐’Š• โ€ข (sagฬƒ)

  1. head
  2. front, fore, beginning
  3. surface, top
  4. man, person, human being
  5. slave, servant

Derived terms

See also

  • Sumerian terms spelled with ๐’Š•

References

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