Ib (cuneiform) letters is usually so compact, that hardly any of the individual strokes can be easily identified. Another sign is similar in this group to cuneiform "ur", but the center is replaced by 2 stokes, one angled down, and the other a wedge (at extreme right vertical), and is the "gáb" sign. In the Amarna letters it is often used for English "all", or "all (of us)", Akkadian language, "gabbu". (Amarna letters EA 153, EA 287, EA 288, and EA 267) Ib (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign ib, (or ip) is a common-use sign in the "Epic of Gilgamesh", the Amarna letters,
Hittite cuneiform Hittite cuneiform Hittite cuneiform is the implementation of cuneiform script used in writing the Hittite language. The surviving corpus of Hittite texts is preserved in cuneiform on clay tablets dating to the 2nd millennium BC (roughly spanning the 17th to 12th centuries BC). Hittite orthography was directly adapted from Old Assyrian cuneiform. The "HZL" of Rüster and Neu lists 375 cuneiform signs used in Hittite documents (11 of them only appearing in Hurrian and Hattic glosses), compared to some 600 signs in use in Old Assyrian. About half of the signs have syllabic values, the remaining are used as ideograms