The cuneiform hi/he sign, (and its Sumerograms), has many uses in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh; also other texts, for example Hittite texts. It is also used to form a second usage of the plural HI.A, .jpg){kind=small}
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. The more common plural is Meš, found in sub-varieties of the sign, a vertical (left), and a horizontal, with 3 wedges, in various position(right); (a digital form)-
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Spelled on line 32, Hi-na-tu-na.
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The alphabetic/syllabic uses and Sumerograms of the 'hi' sign from the Epic of Gilgamesh:[1]
- he
- hi
- DÙG (Sumerogram)s
- HI
- ŠÁR, = Akkadian šar,[2] (3600), (area of land).
Its usage numbers from the Epic of Gilgamesh are as follows:[1] he-(5), hi-(86), DǛG-(3), HI-(6), and ŠÁR-(13).
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References
edit- ^ a b Parpola, 1971. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Sign List, pp. 155-165, no. 396, p. 162.
- ^ Parpola, 1971. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Glossary, pp. 119-145, šar, p. 141.
- Moran, William L. 1987, 1992. The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 1992. 393 pages.(softcover, ISBN 0-8018-6715-0)
- Parpola, 1971. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Parpola, Simo, Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, c 1997, Tablet I thru Tablet XII, Index of Names, Sign List, and Glossary-(pp. 119–145), 165 pages.