Tablet with proto-cuneiform pictographic characters (end of 4th millennium BC), Uruk III. This is thought to be a list of slaves names, the hand in the upper left corner representing the owner.[25]
Jeremy Norman’s![Tablet with proto-cuneiform pictographic characters (end of 4th millennium BC), Uruk III. This is thought to be a list of slaves names, the hand in the upper left corner representing the owner.[25]](http://historyofinformation.com/images/Screen_Shot_2020-08-23_at_5.54.51_PM.png "Tablet with proto-cuneiform pictographic characters (end of 4th millennium BC), Uruk III. This is thought to be a list of slaves names, the hand in the upper left corner representing the owner.[25]")
