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
Ur (cuneiform) compressed cuneiform character that individual strokes are overwritten, and difficult to identify. Cuneiform "ur" has many sub-uses in the "Epic of Gilgamesh". The following can be found: "leq"--(1) time, "lik"--(37), "liq"--(3), "tas"--(1), "taṣ"--(2), "taš"--(15), "tés"--(1), "téš"--(1), "ur"--(93), "UR"--(16) times. Ur (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign ur () is a common-use sign in the "Epic of Gilgamesh", the Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts. It has multiple sub-uses in the "Epic of Gilgamesh", as well as use for the sumerogram (capital letter (majuscule)), UR. In the Epic, "UR" is used to spell Akkadian language "barbaru", "wolf", as "UR.BAR.RA (in Tablet VI, and