Aš (cuneiform)

The cuneiform Aš sign, is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh.

In the Epic, it has the following meanings, besides aš:[1] Some special considerations for a single "cuneiform sign" are as follows.

For aš specifically, (the full-length, horizontal stroke) its highest usage in the Epic of Gilgamesh is for the preposition ina (for in, into, etc.

; confer for a specific "ina" usage (by Kovacs), Gilgamesh flood myth#Alternative translations).

Amarna letter EA 28, titled Messengers Detained and a Protest,[5] uses aš for the spelling of "aššum",[6] Akkadian language because of-(concerning, regarding), and in EA 28, line 24, obverse, Paragraph III, Tushratta, (of Mitanni) continues in his letter: ... "regarding" (the)-Messengers (i.e. Pirissi and Tulubri)....

Cuneiform sign for aš , dil , ina , ṭel , and as sumerogram AŠ , (sign uses from the Epic of Gilgamesh ).
Amarna letter 362 -( Reverse ), Rib-Hadda to Pharaoh, with usage of cuneiform aš in the spelling of šapāru , "to send in writing)" (two locations in letter, line 18 obverse, line 52 reverse).
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