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BAL

English: turn (ORACC ePSD2 glossary, CC0)

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eBL nameBAL
UnicodeU+12044 CUNEIFORM SIGN BAL
Sign listsHZL 4 Ā· LAK 19 Ā· MZL 5 Ā· OBZL 3 Ā· SLLHA 9 Ā· KWU 38 Ā· ABZ 9
Corpus uses21,381 tokens
Live counttablets with ā€œbalā€

English gloss

bala[turn]V/tturn7085 attestations

Source: ORACC ePSD2 glossary (CC0).

Readings

balbalabalakbul3kulā‚“palpala4pul3

Use by period

Archaic0
Early Dynastic1,046
Old Akkadian289
Ur III7,268
Old Babylonian3,478
Middle Bab./Assyr.391
Hittite1
Neo-Assyrian3,458
Neo-/Late Babylonian1,144

Sign list: eBL (LMU Munich), with OGSL readings and Unicode (ORACC, CC0). Counts: Unread Atlas corpus. Credits.