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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
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  • 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

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia