page_title: Diš
hierarchical_section_title: Diš
caption_attribution_description: English: Vorderasiatisches Museum (Near East Museum), Berlin Deutsch: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
context_page_description: The cuneiform sign has many uses in cuneiform texts. In the Amarna letters it is commonly used to denote Male individuals.
  The sign is also used to denote "numbers of items". The sign is used for 1. Examples of multiple uses in the Amarna letters, is to address the Pharaoh, often as "servant-yours, at 2 Feet, .. I bow." An example of multiple uses in the Amarna letters, often the bowing down is done: " .. 7 and 7 times!", with seven small strokes as units of number "1".
  In the Epic of Gilgamesh, there are also uses for "diš", and "tiš".
context_section_description: The cuneiform sign  has many uses in cuneiform texts. In the Amarna letters it is commonly used to denote Male individuals. (Women are denoted by sal (cuneiform), . ) 
  The sign is also used to denote "numbers of items". The sign is used for 1. Examples of multiple uses in the Amarna letters, is to address the Pharaoh, often as "servant-yours, at 2 Feet, .. I bow." An example of multiple uses in the Amarna letters, often the bowing down is done: " .. 7 and 7 times (I bow) !", with seven small strokes as units of number "1".
  In the Epic of Gilgamesh, there are also uses for "diš", and "tiš". (In the Akkadian language, "d" & "t", are interchangeable (voiced vs unvoiced).
caption: Amarna letter EA 288 which uses cuneiform diš.
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