Mur (cuneiform)

— (Right part of sign) — (Left part of sign) Mur (cuneiform), and Har (cuneiform), most common uses in Epic of Gilgamesh; also Hur (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign mur, (also the har, hur, hír sign), is a common-use sign of the Amarna letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts).

Linguistically, it has the alphabetical usage, for consonants in texts for h, r, or m, and also a replacement for the four vowels of a, e, i, or u.

[2] The Jerusalem scribe used mur (cuneiform) in EA 287-289.

The usage is an exclamatory, at sentence starts (an interjection).

42. i-na abul(KÁ.GAL) alu(IRI#) sí-lu-úki qa-al šarru(LUGAL)ru ___ina abullu ālu Siluki ga-al šarru(LUGAL)ru ___in city-gate city Siluki, "tragedy"?, Kingru (Phar.)

Cuneiform áš .
the right side of the mur/har sign enclosed

(The right side, (shown enclosed), is the cuneiform sign for– áš , and used for áš , and ÁŠ , in the Epic of Gilgamesh . [ 1 ] )
Line 5, 2nd cuneiform character from left
(?har, or ?mur (cuneiform))