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
Di (cuneiform) lengths), then the 2-verticals with the 2-wedge strokes, at right.) The usage numbers for "ša" in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" are as follows: "ša"-(66) times. There are no other sub-uses or sumerogramic uses for "ša" in the "Epic of Gilgamesh". Cuneiform "ša" is common in the Amarna letters, found easily between words (as the pronoun), and especially in word constructs. Since it is similar in appearance to cuneiform "ka", the large difference is that "ka" can easily be found as a suffix to words, for example in the Canaanite sub-corpus of letters as ""Servant-Yours"", , ("ARAD-ka"). Di (cuneiform) The cuneiform