Usage examples (11)

• It's written ideographically
• Babylonian-Assyrian proper names -- we have variant readings, the same name being written phonetically in whole or part in one instance and ideographically in another.
• The proper names of the numerous business documents of the Khammurabi period, when phonetic writing was the fashion, have been of special value in resolving doubts as to the...
• A second name of the city, which perhaps originally denoted a separate village or quarter, was Su-anna, and in later inscriptions it is often represented ideographically...