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,
Ne (cuneiform) actual 'letters'.) The ne (cuneiform) sign has the following uses, besides "ne", in the "Epic of Gilgamesh": The sign is a "two-part" compound sign. The center and left is the sign for "[[am (cuneiform)]]", and the right is the sign for "[[is (cuneiform)]]", [[Image:Sumer gis.jpg|100x24px]], (and listed as [[Giš (cuneiform)]], cuneiform "GIŠ" (the "is" sign) being the use for [[GIŠ (wood Sumerogram)]]). The specific usage numbers for the sign's meaning in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" is as follows: "bil"-(9), "kúm"-(5), "ne"-(1), "pil"-(2), "ṭè"-(13), "BIL"-(3), "NE"-(1). In the Amarna letters, the sign is used for spelling "qabû" in the introduction for