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URU

English: city (ORACC ePSD2 glossary, CC0)

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eBL nameURU
UnicodeU+12337 CUNEIFORM SIGN URU
Sign listsHZL 229 · LAK 591 · MZL 71 · OBZL 181 · SLLHA 38 · KWU 768 · ABZ 38
Corpus uses64,838 tokens
Live counttablets with “uru”

English gloss

iri[city]Ncity3378 attestations

Source: ORACC ePSD2 glossary (CC0).

Readings

al8alaalealiālualuer4ereeriir4irilu8re2ri2ru9šigₓu19ulu4uru

Also in OGSL: urumₓ

Use by period

Archaic0
Early Dynastic3,551
Old Akkadian1,445
Ur III7,997
Old Babylonian5,569
Middle Bab./Assyr.2,128
Hittite3
Neo-Assyrian21,110
Neo-/Late Babylonian1,971

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