504 REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN 
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The annexed Fig. 10 represents one of those 
bricks, on the side of which a tablet of arrow-head 
characters is impressed; that such tablets have 
been the result of the impression of an engraved 
block or die there can be no doubt, from the fact 
that the tablet or border around them is depressed 
belowthe surface of the brick, that being the natural 
result of an impression produced from an engraved 
block or stamp, in which the characters had been 
carved in the natural manner. Could there be 
any doubt on this subject, the absolute identity 
of such tablets on several bricks would, I imagine, 
clear it away. The depressed frame or border to 
the tablet is the result of the force with which the 
stamp was caused to act upon the surface of the 
clay. I have never found any of those impressed 
tablets on any other part than the sede of the 
