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least 3,000 B.C. The Sumerians used small cylindrical pieces of hard stone engraved with pictographs as seals and as legal forms of identification.

In the Middle Ages, monks decorated their manuscripts with miniature illustrations. In Elizabethan times, small portraits were used to identify bearers and to arrange marriages. These were often set in jewelry such as lockets. In the 19th

See ARTIST, p. 15

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