(without such a complement) is usually to be read DINGIR = ilum ‘god’; AN-ú (with -ú indicating a final long vowel) is to be read as AN = šamû ‘sky’. Grammatical information is given by the writings É-tum (bītum) ‘house’ (nom.) but É-tim (bītim) (gen.). c. Alphabetic representation of Akkadian signs. (1) We have seen that the phonetic (syllabic) values of a sign can be represented in alphabetic script: thus AN has the values /an/ and /il/. It is characteristic of the cuneiform writing
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