... "recognizable picture of [a] real object rather than [of] symbols" (Roaf 69). The Sumerians used pictographs to represent and convey thoughts or ideas to one another; this process is integral to the preservation of history and to the art of communication. The Sumerians first used writing as a practical means of ... keep records of inventories, but eventually writing developed into complex script, which expressed thought and abstract ideas. The predecessors of clay tablets are three-dimensional objects that were used for means of expression such as cones, disks, spheres, and cylinders. The...

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