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,
Lu (cuneiform) to Akkadian language, ""lullû"", for English language, "(primitive) man"; "DAB" transposes to ṣabātu, English for "to seize, capture". The usage numbers for "lu" (sign no. 537) in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" are as follows: "dab"-(2) times, "dap"-(4), "dib"-(1), "lu"-(293), "tep"-(1), "tàb"-(1), "tib"-(4), "DAB"-(4), "DIB"-(1), "LU"-(9), "UDU"-(1). The "lu" cuneiform sign is within a small group of signs that are composed of 1- or 2-vertical strokes (at right or left), the other signs being no. 535 Ib (cuneiform), no. 536 ku (cuneiform) (only 1-vertical, left and right), no. 575 ur (cuneiform), and gáb (cuneiform). Besides "ša" usage in word components of