Cuneiform stylus or incised in stone. This early style lacked the characteristic wedge shape of the strokes. Certain signs to indicate names of gods, countries, cities, vessels, birds, trees, etc., are known as determinatives and were the Sumerian signs of the terms in question, added as a guide for the reader. Proper names continued to be usually written in purely "logographic" fashion. The earliest known Sumerian king whose name appears on contemporary cuneiform tablets is Enmebaragesi of Kish. Surviving records only very gradually become less fragmentary and more complete for the following reigns, but by the end of the pre-Sargonic period,
Ki (cuneiform) Reverse, line 21: "Šunama," . As determinatives (City & Ki): ... Ki (cuneiform) The cuneiform ki sign, is a multi-use sign used in the "Epic of Gilgamesh", the Amarna letters and numerous texts. It also has a sumerogram usage (capital letter (majuscule)). Cuneiform "ki" is used for syllabic "ki", and also for alphabetic "k", and alphabetic "i". It has additional consonant usage for "q", instead of "k", and also "e", "é", and "í" for vowel "i". Its usage numbers from the "Epic of Gilgamesh" are as follows: "ke"-(9), "ki"-(291), "qé"-(18), "qí"-(62), and "KI"-(288). For sumerogram "KI", KI becomes Akkadian language