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Crook-staff (Luwian hieroglyph)

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The Luwian hieroglyphs include a representation of a crook staff, by convention named lituus (Latin for "crooked staff"). It is encoded as Unicode U+145AB (𔖫, ANATOLIAN HIEROGLYPH A378).

It is comparable to the crook-staff hieroglyph or heqa-sceptre (Gardiner's list S38, S39) used in Egypt.

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