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Mesopotamian Sign Ki (Earth)
CulturalSeedmesopotamian
Construction note
A geometric impression of a cuneiform sign or Mesopotamian motif.
About this symbol
- Meaning
- KI: 'earth' / 'place'.
- Culture / origin
- Sumer / Babylonia / Assyria
- Era
- c. 3200 BCE – 1st century CE
- Historical context
- Cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, was pressed into clay with a reed stylus; its signs encode words, syllables and a base-60 number system.
Public-domain ancient script and iconography.
Tags
mesopotamiancuneiformsumerianancient
SVG source
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