Cuneiform UCLA based on the inventories of Miguel Civil, Rykle Borger (2003) and Robert Englund. Rather than opting for a direct ordering by glyph shape and complexity, according to the numbering of an existing catalogue, the Unicode order of glyphs was based on the Latin alphabetic order of their "last" Sumerian transliteration as a practical approximation. 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".
Ab (cuneiform) AB, Akkadian language for "šību", "elder". In the corpus of the Amarna letters, which is another common use place for 'ab/ap', the name of some of the authors of letters to the Pharaoh, are for example Labaya, and Ayyab. In both cases the use is syllabic for "ab". The usage numbers for the "ab" cuneiform sign in the twelve, Tablets I-XII, of the "Epic of Gilgamesh", are as follows: ab-(11), ap-(28), and sumerogram AB-(12); for "šību", Akkadian language for "elder", only two spellings use "AB"; six other spelliings of "šību" are syllabic/alphabetic. Ab (cuneiform) The cuneiform ab, and ap sign,