A (cuneiform)

In the Amarna letters ia is also used as a suffix: -ia, for example Amarna letter EA 325, "To King (Pharaoh)-Lord-mine (-ia), God-mine, Sun-God-mine, ...." ("A-na Lugal-bēlu-ia, An-meš-ia, An-UTU-ia, ....") The Amarna letter usage of cuneiform a has the same high usage for Akkadian language ana (a-na) as does the Epic of Gilgamesh.

In the Epic of Gilgamesh it almost exclusively is spelled just lā, without the extra a.

At a minimum, they simply continue the text, as 'seque transition points'.

(Some letters, EA 19, Para 2, also include spaces, as part of the segue.)

Anūma, enūma, and inūma is the common adverb, for now, or when, (now, ("now, at this time", as the segue)).

Cuneiform sign 𒀀 for a (d, and from the Epic of Gilgamesh , A , for Akkadian language mû , for water-(s), A (water Sumerogram) , the sumerogram .
Planisphere fragment from Mesopotamia.
Cuneiform a , upper register (left), last character, line 1, and right, in upper register , line 2, last character, (following be (cuneiform) , and space ).