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(digitized form am, and other meanings)
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A common Amarna letter that uses cuneiform am.
(Next-to-last cuneiform sign, line 3.)
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The cuneiform sign am, is a common-use sign of the Amarna letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts). It is also used as AM.
Linguistically, it has the alphabetical usage in texts for a, or m, or syllabically for am. The "a" is replaceable in word formation by any of the 4 vowels: a, e, i, or u.