Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

The symbol for rations ... a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything) and Babylonian ...

Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin gave a temple a number of animals to cover 4 months dues.