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At (cuneiform)

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At (cuneiform)
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The cuneiform sign at, is a common-use sign of the Amarna letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts). It has secondary uses in the Amarna letters for "ad".

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Cuneiform at; also ad, aṭ, and AD.


Linguistically, it has the alphabetical usage in texts for a, (also the 4 vowels, a, e, i, u), and t, and d.

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Epic of Gilgamesh usage

The at sign usage in the Epic of Gilgamesh is as follows: (ad, 17 times, at, 107, aṭ, 15, and AD, 15 times).[1]

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ṣabātu, (sa-ab-ta-at-mi3), using at (cuneiform), line 12
(last full line (in cropped photo), of 15 lines on Obverse)
ṣabātu = (English, "to seize, capture")[2]

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