Cuneiform Cuneiform Cuneiform or Sumerian cuneiform, one of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The name "cuneiform" itself simply means "wedge shaped". Emerging in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BC (the Uruk IV period) to convey the Sumerian language, which was a language isolate, cuneiform writing began as a system of pictograms, stemming from an earlier system of shaped tokens used for accounting. In the third millennium, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract as
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