Tu (cuneiform) 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, with other alphabetic sub-varieties. The Sumerian language version is similar to the usage in the Amarna letters, with the 3-horizontal strokes connecting the 4-angled wedges on the left, and connected to the vertical horizontal single-stroke, at right. Varieties exist: for example Amarna letter EA 271 shows 4-hortizontal long-strokes, with 2 short-strokes, between the two long ones,
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,