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 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, for HA, and KU6, for nūnu, "fish".
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. The 2nd type of cuneiform ha is consistent as: 2-verticals, with a wedge between, and a large wedge ligatured at right;.
Type I of the sign with four short vertical strokes
,, is the za (cuneiform) sign, which is used for linguistic items like: ṣa, za, ZA, ZA being a sumerogram.
In the Epic of Gilgamesh the usage numbers for the ha sign is as follows: ha-, HA-, KU6-.

Selected list of Amarna letter usage by type

Selected Amarna letter usage by type, with some explanation of the letter texts:
Type I
Type II