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,
Iš (cuneiform) most common uses of "iš" in the Amarna letters, is the use of the Akkadian language word ""ištu"", which means "from", ("since"), in the English language. In the "vassal city-state" letters, in dialogue with the Pharaoh-in-Egypt, there is often mention of having listened to the correspondence – "words of the pharaoh", thus the words — ""I have heard …"", or ""I have listened to …", the clay tablet "words" (correspondence), from the pharaoh. The common Akkadian word for "hear", or "listen", is ""šemû"". Iš (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign iš is a common use sign in the Amarna letters and the