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Alamar cuneiform KÁ, don ƙofar ita ce Sumerogram- (logogram) da aka yi amfani da ita a cikin haruffa Amarna da Epic na Gilgamesh; kamar yadda kawai KÁ ke nufin "ƙofar" ko "ƙofar", Harshen Akkadian, "bābu"; a matsayin "Gate-Great", KÁ. GAL don City-Gate, daga Akkadian "abullu", (" (birni) ƙofar"). Dukkanin amfani suna cikin Epic of Gilgamesh .  A cikin Epic, ana amfani da shi ne kawai a matsayin sumerogram, jimlar sau 19, (sau 7 don 'abullu', ƙofar birni).  A cikin Epic, duk rubutun ƙofar birni suna amfani da KÁ. GAL; don ƙofar ('bābu') kawai rubutun yana amfani da haruffa na haruffa don b-a-b-u; sauran suna amfani da KÁ tare da wasu alamun cuneiform (KÁ-x-x, ko KÁ-x, da dai sauransu).

Irin wannan amfani da KÁ don ƙofofi an kuma tabbatar da shi a cikin matani na gudanarwa daga zamanin Tsohon Babila, yana nuna ci gaba a rubuce-rubucen Mesopotamiya.[1]

 Harafin Amarna 
A cikin wasiƙun Amarna, batun Qatar-linkid="24" data-mw-i18n='{"title":{"lang":"x-PA","key":"red-link-title","params":["Amarna letter EA 296"]}}' href="./Amarna_letter_EA_296" id="mwJg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Amarna letter EA 296" typeof="mw:LocalizedAttrs">Wasikar Amarna EA 296, A karkashin Yoke,, shine tsaron birane biyu, a ƙofar birni; kuma mutumin da ya rubuta wasikar, Yabitiri- (Yahtiru) - (gwamnan?) na City? ana kiranta "mai tsaron gida", layi 24 da 31: LÚ. PA. KÁ. šu, Man-Gate-"hannuwa". Šu (cuneiform) , (shaped kamar 'hannu'), yana da ma'ana ta biyu ban da šu, don harshen Akkadian qat, don "qātu", 'hannu" (a matsayin ŠU, sumerogram), kuma an yi amfani da shi don 9 na kimanin 15 rubutun 'qātu' a cikin Epic na Gilgamesh . 

 Manazarta 
Moran, William L. (1987). The Amarna Letters (2nd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 338–339. EA 296, "Under the Yoke"