Cuneiform to left-to-right in horizontal rows (rotating all of the pictographs 90° counter-clockwise in the process) and a new wedge-tipped stylus was introduced which was pushed into the clay, producing wedge-shaped ("cuneiform") signs; these two developments made writing quicker and easier. By adjusting the relative position of the tablet to the stylus, the writer could use a single tool to make a variety of impressions. Cuneiform tablets could be fired in kilns to bake them hard, and so provide a permanent record, or they could be left moist and recycled, if permanence was not needed. Many of the clay tablets found
Tu (cuneiform) UBARA-TU.TU. Two other uses of "TU" in the Epic are as follows: "TU" is also the Akkadian language verb, "erēbu", for English language ""to enter"", ""to set"", used in Tablet III and VII. For the sumerogram "TU.MUŠEN", for Akkadian "summu", the English "dove", it is used 2-times in the Gilgamesh flood myth-(Noah's Ark story), Tablet XI. Tu (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign tu, and for TU-(the sumerogram, capital letter (majuscule), in the Hittite language and other cuneiform texts, is a common-use syllabic sign for ""tu"", and also with a syllabic use for ""t"", or ""u"". It is not a multi-use sign,