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,
Gi (cuneiform) 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 be interchanged with "k", or "q"); and "gi"/"ge" can be used for "i," or "e". In Akkadian, all 4 vowels, "a, e, i,