Cuneiform stylus or incised in stone. This early style lacked the characteristic wedge shape of the strokes. Certain signs to indicate names of gods, countries, cities, vessels, birds, trees, etc., are known as determinatives and were the Sumerian signs of the terms in question, added as a guide for the reader. Proper names continued to be usually written in purely "logographic" fashion. The earliest known Sumerian king whose name appears on contemporary cuneiform tablets is Enmebaragesi of Kish. Surviving records only very gradually become less fragmentary and more complete for the following reigns, but by the end of the pre-Sargonic period,
Lu (cuneiform) are no other sub-uses or sumerogramic uses for "ša" in the "Epic of Gilgamesh". Cuneiform "ša" is common in the Amarna letters, found easily between words (as the pronoun), and especially in word constructs. Since it is similar in appearance to cuneiform "ka", the large difference is that "ka" can easily be found as a suffix to words, for example in the Canaanite sub-corpus of letters as ""Servant-Yours"", , ("ARAD-ka"). Lu (cuneiform) The cuneiform lu sign is a common, multi-use sign, a syllabic for "lu", and an alphabetic sign used for "l", or "u"; it has many other sub-uses, as