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evolution of the cuneiform sign SAG "head", 3000-1000 BC, after Samuel Noah Kramer, "Thirty Nine Firsts In Recorded History" (see [1], see also de:Bild:Keilschriften.png).
The image shows the evolution of the sign SAG "head" (Borger nr. 115, U+12295 𒊕).
- the pictogram as it was drawn around 3000 BC.
- the rotated pictogram as written around 2800 BC.
- the abstracted glyph in archaic monumental inscriptions, from ca. 2600 BC
- the sign as written in clay, contemporary to stage 3.
- late 3rd millennium (Neo-Sumerian)
- Old Assyrian, early 2nd millennium, as adopted into Hittite.
- simplified sign as written by Assyrian scribes in the early 1st millennium
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