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... allusion to the tradition which ascribed the building of the wall of the city to Gilgamesh. At all events, all three expressions, "Erech of the plazas," "Erech walled" and "Erech land," are to be regarded as synonymous. The position once held by Erech follows also from its ideographic designation (Brnnow No. 4796) by the sign "house" with a "gunufied" extension, which conveys the idea of Unu subtu, or "dwelling" par excellence. The pronunciation Unug or Unuk (see the gloss u-nu-uk, VR 23, 8a), composed of unu, "dwelling," ...

— An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic • Anonymous