At (cuneiform)

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Cuneiform at; also ad, at, and AD. B258ellst.png
Cuneiform at; also ad, aṭ, and AD.


The cuneiform sign at, is a common-use sign of the Amarna letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts). It has secondary uses in the Amarna letters for "ad".

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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). [1]

sabatu, (sa-ab-ta-at-mi3), using at (cuneiform), line 12 (last full line (in cropped photo), of 15 lines on Obverse) sabatu = (English, "to seize, capture") At, cuneiform in Amarna letter EA 252, (Obverse, line 12) in Akkadian word for (to capture), line 12, sa-ab-ta-at-mi3, sa is s-dot-a.png
ṣabātu, (sa-ab-ta-at-mi3), using at (cuneiform), line 12
(last full line (in cropped photo), of 15 lines on Obverse)
ṣabātu = (English, "to seize, capture")

References

  1. ↑ Parpola, 1971. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh , Sign List, pp. 155-165, no. 145, p. 158.
  2. ↑ Parpola, 1971. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh , Glossary, pp. 119-145, ṣabātu, p. 139; English, "to seize, capture".


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