High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! During the course of Greek philosophy formulaic communication was introduced as early as 883-859 BC. It has been reported that Assyrian art of a semiotic program is characterized by the formulaic communication system. This Assyrian art is “analogous to the hieroglyphic nature of Egyptian art” and is “characterized by a distinctive network of visual formulas that functions almost like script.” The philosophy in the Assyrian kingship displayed many concepts in art form where the art of Ashurnasirpal II is the first reference to formulaic communication. In the later kings of Assyria formulaic communication is not as prevalent.