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LUGAL

English: king (ORACC ePSD2 glossary, CC0)

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eBL nameLUGAL
UnicodeU+12217 CUNEIFORM SIGN LUGAL
Sign listsHZL 115 Ā· LAK 165 Ā· MZL 266 Ā· OBZL 221a Ā· SLLHA 151 Ā· KWU 313 Ā· ABZ 151
Corpus uses156,242 tokens
Live counttablets with ā€œlugalā€

English gloss

lugal[king]Nking49923 attestations

Source: ORACC ePSD2 glossary (CC0).

Readings

Å”arrubiÅ”ebabiÅ”ebihaniÅ”2kaŔŔebakaŔŔebilillanlillialugallugalanurrarab3sag4sag4Å”ar3Å”araā‚“Å”arraÅ”arruÅ”arrumÅ”ugur

Also in OGSL: guŔurₓ, iliₓ, nūr-ili

Use by period

Archaic13
Early Dynastic6,623
Old Akkadian4,507
Ur III85,820
Old Babylonian16,902
Middle Bab./Assyr.3,602
Hittite5
Neo-Assyrian13,109
Neo-/Late Babylonian5,101

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