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,
Mu (cuneiform) Mu (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign mu, is a common-use sign of the Amarna letters, the "Epic of Gilgamesh," and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts). It is also used as MU. Linguistically, it has the alphabetical usage in texts for "m", or "u", or syllabically for "mu". The u is replaceable in word formation by any of the 4 vowels: "a, e, i," or "u". One reason for the high usage of mu in the Amarna letters is for the word: "peace", or "be safe", Akkadian language "šalāmu", for ""to be sound, whole, safe"". It is used especially between