Footnote

a ¹² It was during the latter part of the Uruk period that the inscriptions found at Gebal were made. Concerning these inscriptions W. F. Albright (ibid., page 185) says: “Some of these impressions contain a dozen or more separate ‘pictographs’ arranged in a regular order. . . . Only the future can tell us whether we are really dealing here with a kind of writing or not.”