The cuneiform sign mu, is a common-use sign of the

Amarna letters 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 t ...

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

is for the word: "peace", or "be safe", Akkadian language ''šalāmu'', for ''"to be sound, whole, safe"''. It is used especially between the Great King letters.

''Epic of Gilgamesh'' usage

The ''mu'' sign usage in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' is as follows: ''mu''-(266 times); ''MU''-(87).

References

Moran, William L. William Lambert Moran (August 11, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American Assyriologist. He was born in Chicago, United States. In 1939, Moran joined the Jesuit order. He then attended Loyola University in Chicago, where he received his ...

1987, 1992. ''The Amarna Letters.'' Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 1992. 393 pages.(softcover, ) * Parpola, 1971. ''The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh'', Parpola, Simo,

Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project is an international scholarly project aimed at collecting and publishing ancient Assyrian texts and studies based on them. Its headquarters are in Helsinki in Finland. State Archives of Assyria State Archives ...

, 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_Ashur-uballit,_the_king_of_Assyria,_to_the_king_of_Egypt_MET_DP-211-142.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 Mi ...

-(titled: ''"Assyria joins the International Scene"'').
A common Amarna letter that uses cuneiform mu.
(line 19, ''Reverse''.) Image:Amarna_letter-_Royal_Letter_from_Ashur-uballit,_the_king_of_Assyria,_to_the_king_of_Egypt_MET_DP-211-143.jpg, line drawing, Reverse Cuneiform signs