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
Gi (cuneiform) u" are interchangeable with each other. The "gi" sign usage in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" is as follows: "ge"-(4 times); "gi"-(17), "GI"-(20 times). Gi (cuneiform) The cuneiform gi sign is a common multi-use sign of the "Epic of Gilgamesh", the 1350 BC Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts. It also has a sumerogrammic usage for GI in the "Epic of Gilgamesh". The structure of the cuneiform sign is like its twin, Zi (cuneiform), . The "gi" sign has the syllabic usage for "ge" and "gi", and a sumerogram usage for "GI". Alphabetically "gi" can be used for "g" ("g" can