The Context of the Symbol @ In Ancient Civilizations
Let’s admit it; we only got to know the real use of the “at” symbol via the birth of the electronic mail (or e-mail as its hyphenated, shortened and made to sound more high-tech, modern and urban), this even with the fact that the “at” symbol can be found in important archeological finds from both the Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Sumerian civilizations, appearing as hieroglyphs.
Today, the “at” as represented by a symbol appears as the letter “a” with its tail turning a full circle around it. It is so easily dismissed as simply a representation of the conjunction “at”, being much easier to write and much prettier to look at. But, people would surely have a hard time believing that during the days when hieroglyphs were still the primary mode of written communication, the “at” sign is conventionally used to address, within the existing tradition of hieroglyphs as drawn figures suggestive of a word or a concept, one’s feverish desire to have sexual intercourse.
In fact, the “at” sign wasn’t just a figure from the hieroglyphs. Like Egyptian and Sumerian Gods who sits in the hieroglyphic alphabet with their own unique figurative representation, the “at” symbol are also made to become ornaments, the biggest of which stands 17 feet beside the tomb of the pharaoh Khufu, the smallest as sterling silver cufflinks, known to them as ankhs, to be given as gifts to Egyptian women.
But the symbol is more powerful than that. When given as an ankh, the very act of offering it to a woman accompanies the virtue of bestowing to her the title of “whore”, which was back then among the noblest of career. Thus, ankhs as career related cufflinks. Among the thousands of cufflinks, the one most prized is the Sterling Silver @ Cufflinks which was said to have been lost by Cleopatra herself while “doing it” with some Roman guy.
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