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𒊕 U+12295, 𒊕
CUNEIFORM SIGN SAG
𒊔
Cuneiform 𒊖

Translingual

Glyph origin

The character in archaic linear script.

  1. the pictogram as it was drawn around 5000 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

𒊕 Sign Number
MZL 184
Deimel 115
HZL 192
Components
𒃰, 𒁹, 𒄑

Derived signs

References

  1. ^ Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernst Alfred Wallis) (1922) A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities,  : Printed by order of the Trustees, page 22
  • R. Borger, Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon (MZL), Münster (2003)
  • A. Deimel, Šumerisches Lexikon (Deimel), Rome (1947)
  • Chr. Rüster, E. Neu, Hethitisches Zeichenlexikon (HZL), Wiesbaden (1989)

Akkadian

Sign values

Sign 𒊕
Sumerograms SAG
Phonetic values ris, riš, sag/sak/saq, san, šag/šak/šaq

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Sumerian 𒊕 (sag̃, head).

Logogram

𒊕 (SAG)

  1. Sumerogram of pūtum (forehead, front)
  2. (rare) Sumerogram of qaqqadum (head, top, person)
  3. Sumerogram of rēštum (beginning)
  4. Sumerogram of rēšum (head, top, slave)

Sumerian

Noun

𒊕 (sag̃)

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

Derived terms

  • 𒊕𒁺 (sag̃-du, head)
  • 𒊕𒆗 (sag̃-kal, first rank, preeminent, foremost)
  • 𒊕𒆠 (sag̃-ki, forehead, brow)
  • 𒊕𒉺𒆸 (zaraḫ, lamentation, wailing)
  • 𒊕𒁍 (sag̃ gid₂ /⁠sag̃ gid⁠/, to get angry)
  • 𒊕𒅍 (sag̃ il₂ /⁠sag̃ il⁠/, to raise the head)
  • 𒊕𒈪𒂵 (sag̃ gig₂-ga /⁠sag̃ giga⁠/, Black Headed Ones)

See also

References