ERIM (army Sumerogram)
ERIM is the capital letter-(majuscule) Sumerogram for the Akkadian language word ''army'', or "troops". The akkadian language word for army is ("ṣābu"-using s-dot, the special s); consequently the cuneiform character for ERIM is also equivalent to ''sab'', ''zab'', etc.-(also using s-dot). The cuneiform-compound for the enclosed use of the 'army' cuneiform character is the akkadian language word for ''battle'', or ''warfare'', akkadian "tāhāzu"-(also a sumerogram: MÈ-no. 098, Parpola). In the Yašdata letter with the place-name for Hannathon, the determinative is used at the beginning of the word battle, then tāhāzu is spelled ta-ha-(zu). Epic of Gilgamesh The cuneiform character for "army"-''sab'' is used 19 times in the Epic of Gilgamesh tablets-(chapters). It is used only once as ''zab''; also only once as ERIM, for "armies" in Chapter XI, as ERIM-mesh(the plural), for "men, troops". Amarna letter usage In the 1350 BC Amarna letters, the army sumerogram ERIM is used ...
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