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,
Tu (cuneiform) UBARA-TU.TU. Two other uses of "TU" in the Epic are as follows: "TU" is also the Akkadian language verb, "erēbu", for English language ""to enter"", ""to set"", used in Tablet III and VII. For the sumerogram "TU.MUŠEN", for Akkadian "summu", the English "dove", it is used 2-times in the Gilgamesh flood myth-(Noah's Ark story), Tablet XI. Tu (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign tu, and for TU-(the sumerogram, capital letter (majuscule), in the Hittite language and other cuneiform texts, is a common-use syllabic sign for ""tu"", and also with a syllabic use for ""t"", or ""u"". It is not a multi-use sign,