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,
I (cuneiform) or a syllable with a vowel) to substitute one vowel for another. In the Amarna letters, the segue adverb ""now"", or "now, at this time", Akkadian language 'enūma', is seldom spelled with the 'e'; instead its spellings are typically: "anūma", "inūma", and sometimes "enūma". In both the Amarna letters and the "Epic of Gilgamesh" another common use of the "i" sign is for the preposition, Akkadian language "ina", spelled "i-na", for "in, into, for, etc.". (There is an alternate cuneiform sign for ina (cuneiform), a sub-variety use of aš (cuneiform), the single, horizontal stroke.) I (cuneiform) The cuneiform i sign