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,
Ù (cuneiform) Ù (cuneiform) The cuneiform ù sign ('u, no. 3'), is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the "Epic of Gilgamesh". Its use is as a conjunction, (translated as for example: "and, but, else, until," etc.), but rarely it is substituted for "alphabetic u", but that vowel "u" is typically represented by 'u, no. 2', (u prime), ú; occasionally 'u, no. 1', (u (cuneiform)), , (mostly used for a conjunction, and "numeral 10"), is also substituted for the "alphabetic u". The use of "ù" is often as a "stand-alone" conjunction, for example between two listed items, but