Cuneiform Sign Naga Inverted

Its Sumerian value is teme₂, a plant term.

Sign lists write this value in scholarly Latin-letter transcription as teme₂ and gloss it as a plant term; literary editions also spell it teme. Nearby signs in a Sumerian line guide how a translator renders it.

Some of the earliest known proto-cuneiform tablets—a very early form of the writing system—are associated with Uruk’s Eanna IVa level in the late fourth millennium BCE. This early script served administration and tracking goods; it gives the wider setting for NAGA signs, not a date for this inverted form.

Is 𒉁 just 𒉀 turned upside down?

No. It is a separate sign, not a rotation instruction.

𒉁 is listed as NAGA@180, also called NAGA inversum. Its upright relative 𒉀 has other readings, including a word for potash or an alkaline plant, and it can appear in the goddess Nisaba’s name. The forms belong to the wider NAGA sign group, but their readings are not interchangeable.

The two-sign sequence 𒊺𒉁 is listed as the compound ŠE.NAGA@180; a compound combines signs and is read as a unit. The separate sign 𒉃 is listed as NAGA opposing NAGA.

What does it mean if someone sends 𒉁?

On its own, it reads as a cuneiform reference or decoration.

A reader who knows cuneiform can recognize it as a sign; someone without that context may see an unfamiliar character. Add a transliteration or a short explanation when the historical reading matters.