Ha (cuneiform)

The cuneiform ha sign comes in two common varieties in the 1350 BC Amarna letters.

It is also found in the large 12-chapter (Tablets I-XII) work of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Cuneiform ha is used as a syllabic for ha, and an alphabetic for h, or a; from the Epic of Gilgamesh it also has two sumerogramic uses (capital letter (majuscule)), for HA (Akkadian language zittu, for "share"), and KU6, for nūnu, "fish".

[3] The digitized version of ha has 4, short vertical strokes, 2-pairs-of-2, in a square; it is ligatured at the right, typically with a large, or medium-large sized wedge-stroke.

In the Epic of Gilgamesh the usage numbers for the ha sign is as follows: ha-(145 times), HA-(2), KU6-(4).

Digitized cuneiform sign for ha ( Type I ) (inside of outer cuneiform sign).
Amarna letter EA 365 -( Reverse ), Biridiya to Pharaoh, "Furnishing Corvée Workers" ; [ 1 ]
line 2 (3rd sign, ha , ( Type II )): Men-"City-Mayor" -(or Magistrate ), " LÚ - MEŠ - ha - za - nu - ta - meš " , Akkadian language for "hazannu" [ 2 ]
( ha defaced from surface scraping)
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