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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 id, also it, and with other sub-uses, including a

sumerogram A Sumerogram is the use of a Sumerian cuneiform character or group of characters as an ideogram or logogram rather than a syllabogram in the graphic representation of a language other than Sumerian, such as Akkadian or Hittite. Sumerograms are no ...

, Á, for

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''idû'', (English: ''to know, to make known, recognize, to inform, proclaim''), is a common-use sign in the ''

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'', the

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, and other cuneiform texts. Letters ("d/t") are paired consonants in the Akkadian language ('voiced'/'unvoiced'), thus the other sub-uses of the sign are for ''ed, et, eṭ, and iṭ''. Cuneiform ''id/it'' can be a syllabic for ''ed, et, eṭ, id, it, and iṭ'', or an alphabetic for any of the constructs thereof. It is also has a sub-use for ''á'', as well as the sumerogram for ''Á''.

''Epic of Gilgamesh'' usage

Cuneiform ''id/it'' has other sub-uses in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh''. The following can be found: ''á''--(5) times, ''ed''--(4), ''et''--(11), ''eṭ''--(13), ''id''--(27), ''it''--(121), ''iṭ''--(21), and ''Á''--(3) times.

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,

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, c 1997, Tablet I thru Tablet XII, Index of Names, Sign List, and Glossary-(pp. 119–145), 165 pages. ---- Cuneiform signs