Cuneiform to left-to-right in horizontal rows (rotating all of the pictographs 90° counter-clockwise in the process) and a new wedge-tipped stylus was introduced which was pushed into the clay, producing wedge-shaped ("cuneiform") signs; these two developments made writing quicker and easier. By adjusting the relative position of the tablet to the stylus, the writer could use a single tool to make a variety of impressions. Cuneiform tablets could be fired in kilns to bake them hard, and so provide a permanent record, or they could be left moist and recycled, if permanence was not needed. Many of the clay tablets found
A (cuneiform) language "enūma". The usage is probably specific to the scribe, as the writer of the letter (not necessarily the 'author' of the letter). Akkadian language "eninna", (English "now") is used far less in the Amarna letters. "Anūma", "enūma", and "inūma" is the common adverb, for "now", or "when", ("now", ("now, at this time", as the segue)). A (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign for a, and in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" the sumerogram A, Akkadian for "mû", "water", which is used in the "Gilgamesh flood myth", Chapter XI of the Epic, or other passages. The sign is also used extensively in the