CAESAR

      C E E Z R Z. The first symbol is of a basket 'calathus'. The phonetic value of the symbol was determined by the acrophonic principle and the symbol may have symbolized 'container'. Numerous Egyptian symbols prior to the Greco-Roman period which symbolized a container carried the phonetic value /m/. That included the 'cup' symbol, 'basket' symbol, and probably included the trapazoid 'box' symbol. It can be shown from word formation that 'm' meant "contain", so by the acrophonic principle symbols of a container carried the phonetic value /m/.