É_(cuneiform)

É (cuneiform)

É (cuneiform)

Cuneiform sign

The cuneiform sign É, is a common-use sign of the Amarna letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts). its most common usage is for the logogram "É", which in the Akkadian language is bītu, (for English: "house"), (and why bit / pit is listed in the alphabetic usages.)[1]

Cuneiform en; also EN.

Linguistically, it has the alphabetical usage in texts for bit, pit, pet, in the Epic of Gilgamesh. In Amarna letter EA 290 for BitdNIN.URTA.

Epic of Gilgamesh usage

The É sign usage in the Epic of Gilgamesh is as follows: (bit, 11 times, pet, 1 time, pit, 7 times, and É,64 times.[2]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Parpola, 1971. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Sign List, pp. 155-165, p. 117, for Logograms, and p. 123, for bītu, (English, "house").
  2. [2]
    Parpola, 1971. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Sign List, pp. 155-165, Sign no. 324, p. 160.

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