Anthropology

They already made clay pots so they knew how to fire clay. But to me it seems it was a lot more important reason to be done that way. In Sumeria you had clay tablets that weren’t fired used as almost a scratch pad temporary means to record something. Then for more important things they fired the clay. And the most important they carved into stone. It’s just curious what could they consider so important yet so small it was made like that? Something that they wanted to record for decades or more. Another thing to remember is a character may not be what most people think of as an individual letter. A character could mean a whole word. Something they wrote in 60 characters could take us a full page to write out. On the bottom it has a swirl. That to me is interesting. Most ancient people put special meanings into it. Cosmology, spiritual, renewal, burial, and the list goes on.