 It has long been assumed that this sign should be LU, so that the country referred to would be Lydia, with Croesus as the king that was killed.However, J. Cargill has shown that this restoration was based upon wishful thinking rather than actual traces of the sign LU.Instead, J. Oelsner and R. Rollinger have both read the sign as Ú, which might imply a reference to Urartu.