Ib (cuneiform) letters is usually so compact, that hardly any of the individual strokes can be easily identified. Another sign is similar in this group to cuneiform "ur", but the center is replaced by 2 stokes, one angled down, and the other a wedge (at extreme right vertical), and is the "gáb" sign. In the Amarna letters it is often used for English "all", or "all (of us)", Akkadian language, "gabbu". (Amarna letters EA 153, EA 287, EA 288, and EA 267) Ib (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign ib, (or ip) is a common-use sign in the "Epic of Gilgamesh", the Amarna letters,
Cuneiform (Unicode block) in June 2004. The base character inventory is derived from the list of Ur III signs compiled by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative of UCLA based on the inventories of Miguel Civil, Rykle Borger (2003), and Robert Englund. Rather than opting for a direct ordering by glyph shape and complexity, according to the numbering of an existing catalogue, the Unicode order of glyphs was based on the Latin alphabetic order of their 'main' Sumerian transliteration as a practical approximation. Of the 907 signs listed by Borger (2003), some 200 have no encoding at a single code point. Conversely, a number