Cuneiform Cuneiform Cuneiform or Sumerian cuneiform, one of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The name "cuneiform" itself simply means "wedge shaped". Emerging in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BC (the Uruk IV period) to convey the Sumerian language, which was a language isolate, cuneiform writing began as a system of pictograms, stemming from an earlier system of shaped tokens used for accounting. In the third millennium, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract as
Ka (cuneiform) follows: and continues: The cuneiform characters being: --, __-- "(...for Land"-yours "..)" and continues: --((~)"And")(--)--, __(--)-- "(..."And"--for "EveryThing""-yours "...!)" Ka (cuneiform) The cuneiform ka sign is a common, multi-use sign, a syllabic for "ka", and an alphabetic sign used for "k", or "a"; it is common in both the "Epic of Gilgamesh" over hundreds of years, and the 1350 BC Amarna letters. Cuneiform "ka" is nearly identical to a similar 'mid-size' to larger cuneiform sign, ša (cuneiform); because both "ka", and "ša" have two separate specific uses, once these usage sites are identified on a specific Amarna letter, for example,