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
Ta (cuneiform) Ta (cuneiform) The cuneiform ta sign is a common, multi-use sign of the "Epic of Gilgamesh", the 1350 BC Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts. It also has a sumerogrammic usage for TA, for example in the "Epic of Gilgamesh", for Akkadian language ""ultu"", English language for "from", or "since", but in only (1) location in the 12 tablet "Epic of Gilgamesh". Sumerogram "TA" is used elsewhere in the Epic, (7) more times. In the formation of words in text, "ta" can be a syllabic for "ta", or as a syllabic for "t", or "a". (It could also be used