Tu (cuneiform) (see here, 2nd line from bottom (tablet Obverse): . The Hittite language version of "tu", (and ideogram "TU") is identical in common form to the Sumerian. The composition of the sign is effectively the 4-wedge strokes at left, (being še (cuneiform)) connected to the rest of the cuneiform sign. Cuneiform še is also a common-use syllabic sign, with few subvarieties. (Two example angled-wedges: ). For the "Epic of Gilgamesh", the following usage is found in Tablets I-XII: "tu"-(193), "tú"-(2), and "TU"-(9) times. "TU" is used for the name of the 'king of Shuruppak'-(father of Utnapishtim), Ubara-Tutu, and it is spelled:
A (cuneiform) , connected (ligatured, attached to "a")-, ligatured to cuneiform "a" is the ia (cuneiform)--. It has usages in the Akkadian language for words starting with "ia", for example "iā'u", (English "mine"), "iāši", (English "(to) me"), and "iāti", (English "me"). In the Amarna letters "ia" is also used as a suffix: -ia, for example Amarna letter EA 325, ""To King (Pharaoh)-Lord-mine" (-ia), "God-mine", "Sun-God-mine", ..." ("A-na Lugal-bēlu-ia, An-meš-ia, An-UTU-ia, ...") The Amarna letter usage of cuneiform "a" has the same high usage for Akkadian language "ana" (a-na) as does the "Epic of Gilgamesh". Two other high usages for "a" and typical