Ú (cuneiform)

The cuneiform sign ú is a common-use sign of the Amarna letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts).

It has a secondary sub-use in the Epic of Gilgamesh for šam.

[1] Linguistically, it has the alphabetical usage in texts for u, but can replace any of the four vowels, so also used for a, or e, or i.

[1] Ú is logogram, for Akkadian "tullal", a soapwort.

The following words use the syllabic šam as the first syllable in the word entries under š in the glossary.