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  1. Amarna letters

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The cuneiform sign , for gate is the sumerogram-(logogram) used in the Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh; as just it means "gate" or "doorway", Akkadian language, "bābu"; as "Gate-Great", KÁ.GAL for City-Gate, it is from Akkadian "abullu", ("(city) gate"). Both uses are in the Epic of Gilgamesh.[1] In the Epic, it is only used as the sumerogram, a total of 19 times, (7 times for 'abullu', city gate).[2] In the Epic, all spellings for city gate use KÁ.GAL; for gate ('bābu') only one spelling uses the alphabetic letters for b-a-b-u; the rest use KÁ along with other added cuneiform signs (KÁ-x-x, or KÁ-x, etc.).

Amarna letters

In the Amarna letters, the topic of Amarna letter EA 296, Under the Yoke, is the guarding of two cities, at the city gate; also the man authoring the letter, Yabitiri-(Yahtiru)-(governor?) of City? is called a "gatekeeper", lines 24 and 31: LÚ.PA.KÁ.ŠU, Man-Gate-"hand". Šu (cuneiform), (shaped like a 'hand'), has the secondary meaning besides šu, for Akkadian language qat, for "qātu", 'hand' (as ŠU, a sumerogram), and used for 9 of about 15 spellings of 'qātu' in the Epic of Gilgamesh.[3]

In letter EA 296, the text is as follows: (reverse side of letter)[4]

"...inquire of his commissioner whether I guard the city gate of Azzatu, and the city gate of Yapu, ...."

The city gate is also discussed in the Amarna letter from Tjaru.

See also

  • Yabitiri
  • Tjaru

References

1. ^Parpola, 197l. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Glossary, pp. 119-145, bābu, p. 122; abullu, p. 119.
2. ^Parpola, 197l. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Sign List, pp. 155-165, no. 133, p. 158.
3. ^Parpola, 197l. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Glossary, pp. 119-145, qātu, p. 137.
4. ^Moran, 1987, 1992. The Amarna Letters,, EA 296, Under the Yoke, pp. 338-9.
  • Moran, William L. 1987, 1992. The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 1992. 393 pages.(softcover, {{ISBN|0-8018-6715-0}})
  • Parpola, 197l. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Parpola, Simo, Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, c 1997, Tablet I thru Tablet XII, Index of Names, Sign List, and Glossary-(pp. 119–145), 165 pages.

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