Terminal Sign Audio (40K) "My personal view is that particularly the representation of this sign freely drawn on pottery and copper tablets leaves little room for doubt that it is a container." "Parpola now thinks that it represents the front view of a bull or a cow with curved horns or a face."

"There is some parallel, it is not a very far-fetched idea, but the symbolism of the jar is much nearer. I am influenced by the fact that in the Indian tradition the ruling classes, the princes and the priests, always claim to have come from a jar." Continued in Full Interview