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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-sha ...

sign at, is a common-use sign of the

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, the ''

Epic of Gilgamesh The ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' () is an epic poetry, 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 ...

,'' and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts). It has secondary uses in the Amarna letters for ''"ad"''. Linguistically, it has the alphabetical usage in texts for ''a'', (also the 4 vowels, a, e, i, u), and ''t'', and ''d''.

''Epic of Gilgamesh'' usage

The ''at'' sign usage in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' is as follows: (''ad'', 17 times, ''at'', 107, ''aṭ'', 15, and ''AD'', 15 times).

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References

* Parpola, 1971. ''The Standard Babylonian

'', Parpola, Simo,

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, c 1997, Tablet I thru Tablet XII, Index of Names, Sign List, Cuneiform signs {{Writingsystem-stub