π’Š•


π’Š• U+12295, 𒊕
CUNEIFORM SIGN SAG
← π’Š”
[U+12294] 		Cuneiform π’Š– β†’
[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
π’Š• Sign Number
MZL 184
Deimel 115
HZL 192
Components
π’ƒ°, 𒁹, π’„‘

Derived signs

References
  1. A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquitiesβ€Ž, [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1922, page 22
  • 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

Etymology

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

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

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

See also
  • Sumerian terms spelled with π’Š•

References
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