In the later period abkal was apparently not pronounced and the whole ideogram was rendered by isimu.
The tablet then explains the Sumerian ideogram gubarra=Asrat, the western mother goddess Ashtarte, and says that Asrat of Ezida is poverty stricken.
The third sign of this ideogram is clearly UNU not NINA on the tablet.
In the new Babylonian times the ideogram is the sign usually read ḫarrânu, also formed of the two horizontal strokes crossed by two connecting strokes or bonds.
But as Meissner has shown,(408) it exchanges with theideogram for “mouth.
But it is also the ideogram for šisîtu, the call of the nâgiru to war or the corvée.
Though the ideogram is different, this is possibly the same as the Pulukku of the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, vol.
This relationship, as well as the interpretation of the ideogram above set forth, points to the original character of the goddess as a water-deity.
The two phases of the ideogramused in his name--the sceptre and the stylus--are thus united in the personage of Nusku precisely as in Nabu.
The compound ideogramexpressing the deity signifies 'house of the fish.
Applied to a settlement, the ideogramwould be the equivalent of our 'Fishtown.
Hence it would seem satisfactory to consider it merely an ideogram or picture but for the prefix, which can not be readily accounted for on the idea of a pictorial representation.
But to write a Chinese ideogram for each syllable of a Japanese word involved much labor, since in many cases a single ideogram was composed of numerous strokes and dots.
The difficulty was gradually lessened during the Nara epoch by the simplification of Chinese characters to such an extent that only a rudimentary skeleton of each ideogram was symbolically used to represent its sound.
An-na, ideogram for the god of heaven, plus phonetic complement.
IDU and DADDU come from the same ideogram which is the picture of the hand and the forearm, the fingers pointing to the left.
Adad The storm-god is known by the Sumerian ideogram Im.
The sign is the usual ideogram for “man”, but may stand for the Assyrian ša, as here.
The sign ANÛ in our text is old Babylonian and is the same as the original ideogram of the star, except that wedges have taken the place of straight lines.
When a word was alphabetically written a phonogram was added to explain it, and an ideogram (or pictograph) was added to explain the phonogram.
The very name of the Euphrates was expressed by an ideogram signifying "the River of Sippar," from which we may infer that Sippar originally stood upon its banks.
When this step is taken, the ideogram, besides representing an idea in a general way, represents a sound, usually the name of the object represented by the ideogram or by one of its components.
The next step forward is the development of the ideograminto the phonogram, or sound sign.
The ideogramdoes not represent a word; it represents an idea.
