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Mur (cuneiform)
— (Right part of sign) — (Left part of sign) ---- Mur (cuneiform), and Har (cuneiform), most common uses in Epic of Gilgamesh; also Hur (cuneiform) ---- The cuneiform sign mur, (also the har, hur, hír sign), is a common-use sign of the Amarna letters, the ''Epic of Gilgamesh,'' and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts). Linguistically, it has the alphabetical usage, for consonants in texts for ''h'', ''r'', or ''m'', and also a replacement for the four vowels of ''a'', ''e'', ''i'', or ''u''. The sign can also be used syllabically for the ''h-r'' variants, or for ''mur'' (used especially for Akkadian amāru, for "to see"), and an example letter of the Amarna letters being Amarna letter EA 289. ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' usage The ''mur'' sign usage in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' is as follows: (''har'', 40 times, ''hír'', 1 time, ''hur'', 18 times, and mur, 27 times. And for the logogram HUR, 2 times. Jerusalem scribe usage, EA 287, EA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrian Cuneiform U1203E Or U12369 MesZL 548 Or U12451 MesZL 549
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Diš (cuneiform)
Diš is a cuneiform sign represented by 𒁹 or . It has many uses in cuneiform texts, including in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh''. Description 𒁹 is a cuneiform sign. In Unicode, it is represented by U+12079 (DISH) Use of the vertical sign In the Amarna letters, it is commonly used to denote ''Male individuals''. (Women are denoted by sal (cuneiform), . ) The sign is also used to denote "numbers of items". The sign is used for 1. Examples of multiple uses in the Amarna letters, is to address the Pharaoh, often as ''"servant-yours, at 2 Feet, .. I bow."'' An example of multiple uses in the Amarna letters, often the bowing down is done: ''" .. 7 and 7 times (I bow) !"'', with seven small strokes as units of number "1". ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' usage In the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', there are also uses for "diš", and "tiš". (In the Akkadian language, "d" & "t", are interchangeable (voiced vs unvoiced). The ''ana'', (''diš'') sign usage in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' is as follows: ''a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Si (cuneiform)
The International System of Units, known by the international abbreviation SI in all languages and sometimes pleonastically as the SI system, is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement. Established and maintained by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), it is the only system of measurement with an official status in nearly every country in the world, employed in science, technology, industry, and everyday commerce. The SI comprises a coherent system of units of measurement starting with seven base units, which are the second (symbol s, the unit of time), metre (m, length), kilogram (kg, mass), ampere (A, electric current), kelvin (K, thermodynamic temperature), mole (mol, amount of substance), and candela (cd, luminous intensity). The system can accommodate coherent units for an unlimited number of additional quantities. These are called coherent derived units, which can always be represented as products ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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