What 𒓻 means
It records a dairy product, usually interpreted as cheese.
An archaic-period vessel list includes a possible precursor to LAK-490, tentatively interpreted as a unit of cheese. In pre-Sargonic Girsu—before the Sargonic dynasty—cattle-herders’ delivery quotas place this sign beside butter oil, or clarified butter. The dairy-account setting supports the cheese reading.
In the Ur III period, scribes wrote the dairy product with GAHAR or GAUD-GUNU sign combinations. In later Sumerian, they wrote the cheese word syllable by syllable as ga-àr, instead of using this older logogram. LAK-490 is a sign-list label, not a pronunciation guide.
What if someone sends LAK-490 alone?
Treat it as a cuneiform reference until you get context.
A message sent alone does not carry the tablet’s accounting clues. The sender may mean the sign itself or point to a historical text; ask what they mean before replying “cheese.”
Specialist and archival; sent alone, it points to cuneiform or an ancient-text reference.
Alone, it does not reliably communicate “cheese.”
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Who writes 𒓻
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA cuneiform reference; ask what text or idea the sender means.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does LAK-490 show as a box?
The selected font does not include the Early Dynastic Cuneiform glyph. Choose a font with that coverage; the missing shape does not indicate a different character.
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How to type or find 𒓻
- Also called
- LAK 490 · LAK490 · gaʾar
- Search it as
- lak-490 · ga-àr · ga'ar · ga-ar3 · cheese · cuneiform cheese · Sumerian cheese · dairy account
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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