Amarna letter- Royal Letter from Abi-milku of Tyre to the king of Egypt MET 24

The

cuneiform Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-sh ...

sign am, is a common-use sign of the Amarna letters, the ''

Epic of Gilgamesh The ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' () is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, and is regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature and the second oldest religious text, after the Pyramid Texts. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with ...

,'' and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts). It is also used as AM. Linguistically, it has the alphabetical usage in texts for ''a'', or ''m'', or syllabically for ''am''. The "a" is replaceable in word formation by any of the 4 vowels: ''a, e, i,'' or ''u''.

''Epic of Gilgamesh'' usage

The ''am'' sign usage in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' is as follows: ''am''-(87 times); ''AM''-(4).

References

* Moran, William L. 1987, 1992. ''The Amarna Letters.'' Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 1992. 393 pages.(softcover, ) * Parpola, 1971. ''The Standard Babylonian

'', 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. ---- Image:Amarna_letter-_Royal_Letter_from_Abi-milku_of_Tyre_to_the_king_of_Egypt_MET_DP-211-144.jpg, line drawing, Obverse

Amarna letter EA 15 Amarna letter EA 15, titled ''Assyria Joins the International Scene'', is a shorter-length clay tablet Amarna letter from Ashur-uballit I of the '' Land of Assyria'', (line 3 of EA 15). He addresses the Pharaoh in line 1, the ''"King (of) Land M ...

-(titled: ''"Assyria joins the International Scene"'').
A common

Amarna letter The Amarna letters (; sometimes referred to as the Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets, and cited with the abbreviation EA, for "El Amarna") are an archive, written on clay tablets, primarily consisting of diplomatic correspondence between ...

that uses cuneiform ''am''.
(Next-to-last cuneiform sign, line 3.) Image:Amarna_letter-_Royal_Letter_from_Abi-milku_of_Tyre_to_the_king_of_Egypt_MET_24.2.12_EGDP021811.jpg, Right Edge (''Obverse'') showing
am, 3rd line from top.
( am-qut, for "maqātu",
"to bow down", etc.; to address someone ) Cuneiform signs