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,
Aš (cuneiform) Pharaoh's reproach Answered", [[Amarna letter EA 28]], titled "Messengers Detainded and a Protest", uses "aš" for the spelling of "aššum", [[Akkadian language]] "because of"-("concerning, regarding"), and in EA 28, line 24, obverse, Paragraph III, [[Tushratta]], (of [[Mitanni]]) continues in his letter: "... "regarding" (the)-Messengers (i.e. [[Pirissi and Tulubri]])...". ---- [[Category:Akkadian language]] [[Category:Cuneiform signs, Amarna letters]] Aš (cuneiform) [[File:B001ellst.png|437px|left|thumb|Cuneiform sign for aš, dil, ina, ṭel, and as [[sumerogram]] AŠ, (sign uses from the "[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]").]] [[File:Louvres-antiquites-moyen-orient-p1020178.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Amarna letter 362]]-("Reverse"), [[Rib-Hadda]] to Pharaoh, with usage of cuneiform "aš" in the spelling of "šapāru", "to send in writing)" (two locations in letter, line