π’Š•

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CUNEIFORM SIGN SAG
← 𒊔
 		Cuneiform 𒊖 β†’

Translingual

Glyph origin

The character in archaic linear script.[1]

  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

π’Š• Sign Number
MZL 184
Deimel 115
HZL 192
Components
π’ƒ°, 𒁹, π’„‘

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), MΓΌnster (2003)
  • A. Deimel, Ε umerisches Lexikon (Deimel), Rome (1947)
  • Chr. RΓΌster, E. Neu, Hethitisches Zeichenlexikon (HZL), Wiesbaden (1989)

Akkadian

Sign values

Sign π’Š•
Sumerograms SAG
Phonetic values ris, riΕ‘, sag/sak/saq, san, Ε‘ag/Ε‘ak/Ε‘aq

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Sumerian π’Š• (sagΜƒ, β€œhead”).

Logogram

π’Š• β€’ (SAG)

  1. Sumerogram of pΕ«tum (β€œforehead, front”)
  2. (rare) Sumerogram of qaqqadum (β€œhead, top, person”)
  3. Sumerogram of rΔ“Ε‘tum (β€œbeginning”)
  4. Sumerogram of rΔ“Ε‘um (β€œhead, top, slave”)

Sumerian

Noun

π’Š• β€’ (sagΜƒ)

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

Derived terms

  • π’Š•π’ (sagΜƒ gidβ‚‚ /⁠sagΜƒ gid⁠/, β€œto get angry”)
  • π’Š•π’… (sagΜƒ ilβ‚‚ /⁠sagΜƒ il⁠/, β€œto raise the head”)
  • π’Š•π’ˆͺπ’‚΅ (sagΜƒ gigβ‚‚-ga /⁠sagΜƒ giga⁠/, β€œBlack Headed Ones”)

See also

References

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