Footnote
a 22 Journal of the University of Bombay, Vol. VII, Part 1, July, 1938, H. Heras, “The Origin of the Sumerian Writing,” page 9: “This dual meaning [hill, country] of the word . . . evidently shows that the country, i.e., their country, originally was mountainous.”
D. Diringir, ibid., page 41: “We are also unable to decide whether the cuneiform system was invented in Mesopotamia or elsewhere, which seems more probable.”