Vertical Lines (Sticks, People, Posts)

Image:  Single line and sign of connection

Definitions: (noun) one, unique, alone - Single lines are used to indicate connections

Image: Two things together but not tied together

Definition: (noun) companion, couple, pair, (verb) to pair up

Image: Something carrying two things

Definition: (noun) transport - usually used with a modifier to indicate boat or cart. By itself it can be an epithet for worm

Image: Front view of a drooling or connective bull head

Definition: (noun) bull, chaotic rain storm deity, (verb) to rush around - bulls represented the chaos power of a thunder storm which brought rains. Drooling is a sign the bull is stressed and excitable (or has eaten something irritating)

Image: cornered vertical line

Definition: bow

Image: Storage pot containing one thing over angled vertical lines

Definition: (noun) womb, (verb) to leak, to seep, to give birth

Image: 3 overcoming 2

Definition: (noun) the cry of pain, pain, ouch, ow, (adj) painful, (verb) to cause pain, to be painful

Image: pair of things over a mix of something

Definition: (unknown)

Image: ?

Definition: (noun) city wall?, to climb, to ascend

Image: Tied bundle of grain stalks

Definition: (noun) tie string, anything which binds things together like a navigable river or wall (verb) to tie  (this sparse version seems to emphasize the tie)

Image: oil lamp over boundary crossing sign

Definition: mud item, pottery, clay tablet - lamp seems to represent an archetypical clay pottery that would not be confused with other signs.

Image: Side view of an interaction of 2 people in space

Definitions: (noun) judge, lawsuit,  judgment, decision, verdict, (verb) to judge, decide, to conduct oneself, to go, to escape - Similar to word "divine." This is possibly an epithet for the life manifestation goddess who judges whether to let through the fertility fluids to trigger the life manifestation accomplished by Yahu)

Image: piece of cloth or network

Definition: cloth

Image:  Female sign (SAL) over a cloth or net (TUG2)

Definition:  (noun) queen, mistress, lady - "The Lady" by itself is an epithet for goddess INANNA

Image: Stick stylus (leaves still attached) pressing into a clay tablet

Definition: (noun) words (verb) to cause, to name, (prep) because - words were an agent of motion change

Image: person on ground

Definition: (noun) offspring, progeny, (verb) to produce  

Image: plant - found on Sippar foundation stone

Definition: plant, plant-grower (farmer, gardener), to farm

Image: left post with some hanging object off to the right

Definition: window shutter, to hide, to dampen (coals)

Image: Wood panel in door post 

Definition: Door, entrance

Image: Grounded female with breast

Definition: (noun) relative, family member

(noun) Earth-relative (ŠEŠ.KI). Used to describe relationship to deities: SU 1.1

Image: Person over something

Definition: lord, high official

Image:  ?

Definition:  (noun) image, likeness, picture, figurine, statue  (adj. & adv.) no, not; without; negative.

Image: Three-layers Ancient Pagan Paradigm with control gate in middle associated with a bundle of wheat

Definition: (unknown)

Image: backbone over a sky-gate

Definition: (meaning unknown) (old guesses are: prince, noble, master, (verb) to rise up, to be high, to be on top of, (adj) great, noble, fine, deep)

Image:  Harvested field with bound grain stalks (SIG3, SAG3) showing its connections up and down

Definition: to do, to make

Image: thorns sticking to a surface

Meaning: to insert, to place

Image: flag on pole

Definition: (noun) wind, (verb) to blow, to be windy, to send on the wind

Image: Top view of a grain field (rectangle with wheat) with top side being a control gate which is controlled by two people

Definition: (noun) economic exchange, buy/sell, (verb) to barter, 

Image: rising smoke

Definition: fire, smoke

Image: Storage pot filled with fluid having a vertical line indicating it is connected to something. Notice the vertical line touches the inner fluid line.

Definition: to refine fluid, to rain, to extract oil

Image: Filled storage pot with sky gate at bottom having a connective line on top

Definition: (unknown)

Image: Front view of cow head

Definition: Female cow

Image: Storage pot holding a mix of dry materials on a post stuck in the ground. The vertical lines indicated connection.

Definition: (unknown)

Image: a cut stick (life thread here) falling over towards the right. Later version shows a life thread with a control gate.

Definition: decision, judgment, (verb) to decide, to judge, to cut, (adj) deliberate, judicious

Image: Side view of kneeling person having a mouth opening facing left. One the top is a single line indicating this person is connected to something (perhaps the owner).

Definition: (noun) male slave, servant, (verb) to capture, to lead away

Variant: Same as Akkadian "ARADu" which means "servant."

Image: Controller gate (long vertical line) controlling something having motion (angled lines, wind) and grain (vertical lines, life)

Definition: lord, lady, royalty - some one who control land and its resources