Winkelhaken

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The Winkelhaken (Script error: No such module "IPA"., "angular hook"), also simply called a hook, is one of five basic wedge elements appearing in the composition of signs in Akkadian cuneiform. It was realized by pressing the point of the stylus into the clay.

A single Winkelhaken corresponds to the sign Script error: No such module "lang". (Borger 1981 nr. 411, Borger 2003 nr. 661), encoded in Unicode at code point U+1230B ๐’Œ‹.

other signs consisting of Winkelhaken:

  • A Glossenkeil (Borger nr. 378) is a cuneiform character, consisting of either two Winkelhaken (U+12471 ๐’‘ฑ), or of two parallel short diagonal wedges (U+12472 ๐’‘ฒ, similar to GAM), Borger 2003 nr. 592, which serves as a sort of punctuation, as it were as quote sign, marking foreign words or names, or as separation mark, transliterated as a colon ':'.
  • two Winkelhaken, MAN, XX "20", Borger 2003 nr. 708
  • three Winkelhaken, Eล , XXX "30", Borger 2003 nr. 711, U+1230D ๐’Œ
  • four Winkelhaken, NIMIN, XL "40", Borger 2003 nr. 712, U+1240F ๐’
  • four Winkelhaken, two of them reversed MAล GI, BARGI, Borger 2003 nr. 713, U+12310 ๐’Œ
  • five Winkelhaken, NINNU, L "50", Borger 2003 nr. 714, U+12410 ๐’
  • six Winkelhaken, LX "60", Borger 2003 nr. 715, U+12411 ๐’‘
  • seven Winkelhaken, Borger 2003 nr. 716, U+12412 ๐’’
  • eight Winkelhaken, Borger 2003 nr. 717, U+12413 ๐’“
  • nine Winkelhaken, Borger 2003 nr. 718, U+12414 ๐’”

References

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