When I read about "400 clay tablets" I had a mental picture of something like 12"x18" objects with hundreds of character each, rather like the Dead Sea Scrolls - a massive amount of information - a massive amount of information. In actuality, they looked like this, and though sped up, you can see how long it took to make one. Firing it, which allows us to find them and read them now, was not instituted for long term record-keeping as much as to guard against anyone doctoring them after completion
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