Later still, there was a further innovation: several lines of writing, added at the end of the text on the back surface, identifying what the text contained, more or less as a table of contents does today. This acquired the term colophon, derivded from the Greek kolophon, meaning "finishing touch". .. The colophons were numbered, and recorded how many tablets the text was comprised of.

Ideas, by Peter Watson. p. 89

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