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ŠEŠ

English: brother (ORACC ePSD2 glossary, CC0)

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eBL nameŠEŠ
UnicodeU+122C0 CUNEIFORM SIGN SHESH
Sign listsHZL 79 · LAK 32 · MZL 535 · OBZL 21b · SLLHA 331 · KWU 32 · ABZ 331
Corpus uses21,510 tokens
Live counttablets with “šeš”

English gloss

šeš[brother]Nbrother2088 attestations

Source: ORACC ePSD2 glossary (CC0).

Readings

ah2aha2ahimun4muš5nansassessissiššasšaššaṣše16šesšeṣšeššiššisšiṣšizzaₓzahₓ

Also in OGSL: sasₓ, šaz

Use by period

Archaic0
Early Dynastic1,648
Old Akkadian694
Ur III10,453
Old Babylonian2,199
Middle Bab./Assyr.620
Hittite0
Neo-Assyrian2,492
Neo-/Late Babylonian590

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