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,
Ù (cuneiform) in the 25 are: a (cuneiform), i (cuneiform), and ia (cuneiform), ("ia" which has a secondary use as suffix, ""-mine"", or ""my"", thus in top 25 most used signs). Suffix ""iYa"" is used in the Middle East\Southwest Asia at present day to end placenames, or other names: "My Xxxxx". Usage numbers of "ù" in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" is as follows: ù-(84); Buccellati's usage numbers (330 Amarna letters) is (1848). Scribal variants of "ù" exist, and especially in the Amarna letters. At least one Amarna letter, EA 367, (Pharaoh to Endaruta), has an atypical variant, but the entire letter has