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The cuneiform sign MÁ, the sumerogram (capital letter (majuscule)) is the sign for English language "ship", or "boat", Akkadian language eleppu. When written in cuneiform texts, MÁ is preceded by the determinative for items made of wood, namely GIŠ, (GIŠ (wood Sumerogram). For ship, or boat it is written as: GIŠ.MÁ, or ^GIŠ.MÁ, .

As examples of words using GIŠ from the Epic of Gilgamesh, giš (cuneiform), lists 16-uses of "wood-related" words, among them Akkadian eleppu, for "ship".

Some of the Amarna letters using the sumerogram for ship, or boat, are Amarna letters: EA 86, EA 153, EA 149, and EA 245. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI (chapter) (the Flood Story) uses the ship/boat sumerogram; elsewhere Gilgamesh is taken by boat in other chapters of the Epic.

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