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
Iš (cuneiform) most common uses of "iš" in the Amarna letters, is the use of the Akkadian language word ""ištu"", which means "from", ("since"), in the English language. In the "vassal city-state" letters, in dialogue with the Pharaoh-in-Egypt, there is often mention of having listened to the correspondence – "words of the pharaoh", thus the words — ""I have heard …"", or ""I have listened to …", the clay tablet "words" (correspondence), from the pharaoh. The common Akkadian word for "hear", or "listen", is ""šemû"". Iš (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign iš is a common use sign in the Amarna letters and the