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Preferred term

Pictography  

Definition

  • Highly simplified or conventionalized pictures that stand for the thing pictured; may be used as writing signs corresponding to individual words or phonetic elements in a language; use also for certain prehistoric pictures and linear designs whose meanings are uncertain [AAT]

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Synonym(s)

  • Pictograms
  • Pictographic signs
  • Pictographic writing
  • Pictographs
  • Pictorial signs
  • Picture-signs
  • Picture-writing
  • Signs, pictographic
  • Writing, pictographic

Notation

  • 120232

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-GDH8FW5B-7

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