Mur (cuneiform)
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Mur , and Har , most common uses in Epic of Gilgamesh; also Hur
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The cuneiform sign mur,, is a common-use sign of the Amarna letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other cuneiform 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. The sign can also be used syllabically for the h-r variants, or for mur, and an example letter of the Amarna letters being Amarna letter EA 289.
''Epic of Gilgamesh'' usage
The mur sign usage in the Epic of Gilgamesh is as follows: (har, 40 times, hír, 1 time, hur, 18 times, and mur, 27 times. And for the logogram HUR, 2 times.Jerusalem scribe usage, EA 287">Amarna letter EA 287">EA 287, EA 288">Amarna letter EA 288">EA 288, EA 289">Amarna letter EA 289">EA 289
The Jerusalem scribe used mur in EA 287-289. The usage is an exclamatory, at sentence starts. The spelling in the Akkadian language, for the scribe is a (cuneiform)-, as the Akkadian word being referenced as an "Exclamation", and is "Amāru-!",, and in the English language is approximately — "Look -!". In some cases, like EA 288, the Jerusalem scribe uses it two lines apart, lines 41 and 43, of the letter Reverse.The lines:
41. a-mur 1=dištu-ur-ba-zu gaz da-
___amāru-! — 1=dišTurbazu gaz da-
___Look -! — Turbazu "killed"-!
42. i-na abul alu sí-lu-úki qa-al šarruru
___ina abullu ālu Siluki ga-al šarruru
___in city-gate city Siluki, "tragedy"?, Kingru
43. a-mur 1=m=dišzi-im-ri-da alu la#-ki#-siki
___amāru-! — 1=m=dišZimredda ālu Lachishki
___Look -! — mZimredda city Lachish