Ru (cuneiform)

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

In the I-XII Tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh, it has specific uses showing alternate renderings besides ru; as sign no.

The scribal rendering of the ru sign is dramatically different in some of the Amarna letters.

The alternate rendition of the sign as shown in Amarna letter EA 364 is also found twice in the mid-length (to long) 69-line Amarna letter EA 362, Rib-Hadda to Pharaoh, used as "to send" (a letter/message), line 52, "aš-pu-ru", Akkadian "šapāru".

Henceforth, Amurru remained firmly in Hittite hands until the reign of the 19th dynasty Pharaohs Seti I and Ramesses II.

Cuneiform ru , but also ( Epic of Gilgamesh ), šub , šup , and as Sumerogram ŠUB
Hittite form of ru (used commonly in the Amarna letters ).
Amarna letter EA 364 , Ayyab to Pharaoh.
In Line 8, the final character (5th) is ru ; the line translates as " SAHAR -(a Sumerogram , (="Iš (cuneiform)", =dust) and a - pa - ru -( ) " ( Akkadian ='eperu', "dust"): (Line 7.9)..."and... (line 8) dust and dust, (line 9) (at) 2 feet-yours."-(the Pharaoh)
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Amarna letter EA 161 , line 2: "message (speaking thus) ':
1. A -zi-ru ,
servant-yours"
(Individual (1.) + 3 cuneiform characters, A , zi , ru .)