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,
Id (cuneiform) Id (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign id, also it, and with other sub-uses, including a sumerogram, Á, for Akkadian language "idu", is a common-use sign in the "Epic of Gilgamesh", the Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts. Letters ("d/t") are paired consonants in the Akkadian language ('voiced'/'unvoiced'), thus the other sub-uses of the sign are for "ed, et, eṭ, and iṭ". Cuneiform "id/it" can be a syllabic for "ed, et, eṭ, id, it, and iṭ", or an alphabetic for any of the constructs thereof. It is also has a sub-use for "á", as well as the sumerogram for "Á". Cuneiform "id/it"