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
Id (cuneiform) Id (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign id, also it, and with other sub-uses, including a sumerogram, Á, for Akkadian language "idu", is a common-use sign in the "Epic of Gilgamesh", the Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts. Letters ("d/t") are paired consonants in the Akkadian language ('voiced'/'unvoiced'), thus the other sub-uses of the sign are for "ed, et, eṭ, and iṭ". Cuneiform "id/it" can be a syllabic for "ed, et, eṭ, id, it, and iṭ", or an alphabetic for any of the constructs thereof. It is also has a sub-use for "á", as well as the sumerogram for "Á". Cuneiform "id/it"