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
Tu (cuneiform) UBARA-TU.TU. Two other uses of "TU" in the Epic are as follows: "TU" is also the Akkadian language verb, "erēbu", for English language ""to enter"", ""to set"", used in Tablet III and VII. For the sumerogram "TU.MUŠEN", for Akkadian "summu", the English "dove", it is used 2-times in the Gilgamesh flood myth-(Noah's Ark story), Tablet XI. Tu (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign tu, and for TU-(the sumerogram, capital letter (majuscule), in the Hittite language and other cuneiform texts, is a common-use syllabic sign for ""tu"", and also with a syllabic use for ""t"", or ""u"". It is not a multi-use sign,