8. Apparently hieroglyphics of mountains and valleys, hence "country" or "land." The Egyptian
men=mountain, is applied in the same way as a determinative for "districts" and "countries." As
snut=granary, it reappears, with one or two heaps of corn in the middle, in the simple sense of a "plot of ground." The Akkadian symbol, which also means a plot of ground, exhibits a form
similar to the above.
"In this connection," says Mr. Evans, "a truly remarkable coincidence is observable between the pictographic symbolism of old Chaldæa and that of the Cretans of the Mycenæan period. The linear form of the Akkadian Ut-tu