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Museum-catalogue synthesis taking the majority view that cuneiform was invented for Sumerian, with the limited rebus evidence; about 5,000 tablets from Uruk excavated 1928-1976. In C. Woods (ed.), Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond, Oriental Institute Museum Publications 32, pp. 33-50. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
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Christopher Woods (2010). The Earliest Mesopotamian Writing. https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/docs/oimp32.pdf
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