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
Aš (cuneiform) Pharaoh's reproach Answered", [[Amarna letter EA 28]], titled "Messengers Detainded and a Protest", uses "aš" for the spelling of "aššum", [[Akkadian language]] "because of"-("concerning, regarding"), and in EA 28, line 24, obverse, Paragraph III, [[Tushratta]], (of [[Mitanni]]) continues in his letter: "... "regarding" (the)-Messengers (i.e. [[Pirissi and Tulubri]])...". ---- [[Category:Akkadian language]] [[Category:Cuneiform signs, Amarna letters]] Aš (cuneiform) [[File:B001ellst.png|437px|left|thumb|Cuneiform sign for aš, dil, ina, ṭel, and as [[sumerogram]] AŠ, (sign uses from the "[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]").]] [[File:Louvres-antiquites-moyen-orient-p1020178.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Amarna letter 362]]-("Reverse"), [[Rib-Hadda]] to Pharaoh, with usage of cuneiform "aš" in the spelling of "šapāru", "to send in writing)" (two locations in letter, line