It tends to construct an inscription by combining a root-sign with others with which it shares a metaphysical arrangement or by duplicating or multiplying it to expand its power.

Lozenges, spirals and meanders are the three root-signs composing the ideogram insribed on the spoon from Wetzleinsdorfer (Austria) dating back 7000 years. It is certain that the spoon had a ritual function and was not a kitchen utensile, that is the signs had a symbolic and not only decorative value. They probably also express a symbolic "text". Did they transmit "read" concepts of that population?

By means of the multiplication and combination of a root-sign with other signs, priestesses and priests of Ancient Europe used to form glyphs capable of communicating abstract contents. In the first case, the power derived from multiplying a single sign, in the second, it was caused by the combination of complementary and similar signs.

The doubling-tripling of the same sign on a cult object or the coupling of different signs signified that the officiant was acting at two different ritual levels. The first procedure was perhaps intended for making an invocation. The second (joining several signs) "involved a more complex meaning which is the condition for the development of any formal writing as such. The juxtaposition of images goes beyond a simple magical repetition and becomes an abstraction capable of expressing subtle distinctions" (Gimbutas 1991).