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Angled wedges are often much smaller expressed wedges, from 1/2 to 1/3? size. For space considerations, the angled wedges can be extremely high-angled, towards vertical, thus saving "horizontal text space"; alternatively, the wedges could be spaced out, allowing for the consumption of more
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has a scribing base line, that follows the vertical stroke, a baseline on which the wedges are placed sequentially. EA 161 shows the baseline 'remainder', extending beyond the last 3rd, or 4th wedge.
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form), it is typically separated from other capital letter
Sumerograms with a period. The name of the group can follow, in lower case letters, for example: (men-massu, Amarna letter EA 365), LÚ.
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for the angled wedges laid upon it. In EA 153 the base line "head" is used as the first wedge-(non-angled), following by the angled wedge-2 and wedge-3.)
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any percentage less than a full 3/4-wedge, or 1/2-wedge.
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5th line from bottom, (line 23), (men:'massu'), "LÚ.
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155:Usage, Amarna letters and Epic of Gilgamesh
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190:Meš, as cuneiform "Me", + cuneiform "Eš"
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174:In the
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