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The cuneiform ŠEŠ sign, as a capital letter (majuscule), is a sumerogram for Akkadian language ''ahu,''〔Parpola, 197l. ''The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh'', Glossary, pp. 119-145, ahu, p. 119.〕 for "brother". It is the cuneiform sign for ŠEŠ, as it can be used for a variety of lower case syllabic values, using š + vowel + š, (or replacement s+vowel+s). Sumerogram ''ŠEŠ'' has a high usage in the mid-14th century BC, ~1350-1330 BC Amarna letters from the brother kingdoms to the Pharaoh's Egypt (Egypt named ''Mizri'' in the letters). The brother kingdoms were Babylon, Alashiya, and Mittanni, where King Tushratta authored 13 El Amarna letters. The sumerogram ''ŠEŠ'', and its syllabic uses (''sis'' through ''šiš'') are also found in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', with usage numbers as follows: ''sis''-(3 time), ''šes''-(6), ''šeš-(3), ''šiš''-(1), ''ŠEŠ''-(6).〔Parpola, 197l. ''The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh'', Sign List, pp. 155-165, Sign no. 331, p. 160.〕 As an example of the high usage of sumerogramic use in the Amarna letters, Amarna letter EA 19 from Tushratta, for 13 paragraphs averages about three uses per paragraph, 40 uses of ''ŠEŠ'' in the entire letter. For letter EA 35 from the King of Alashiya, for a total of thirteen paragraphs, the sumerogram is used 27 times.〔Moran 1987, 1992. ''The Amarna Letters.'' EA 19, ''Love and Gold'', pp. 43-46, EA 35, ''The Hand of (god)-Nergal'', pp. 107-109.〕 ==Construction of the sign== The ''ŠEŠ'' sign is constructed by the addition of two wedges (an upper wedge positioned above a lower wedge), at the end of the cuneiform sign for "man", LÚ (man Sumerogram). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ŠEŠ (brother Sumerogram)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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