Transition Note - 4. Alphanumeric Notation and the Calendrical-Musical Kosmos
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Transition Note
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Certainly Sumerian seals were “connected strictly to economic operations. Mostly, they were used for securing all kinds of locking devices, such as lumps of clay used to seal containers, or lumps of clay kneaded around the knot of ropes securing a roor, or the like. Impressions of cylinder seals are found mostly on clay stoppers used to seal jars, or on lumps of clay which still show the traces of ropes inside.”
[Omitted text: “Put this with Indus seals:”]
Higher officials needed regularized seals. Lower officials could use more machine-made standardized ones, which were simpler. The high-status ones had mythological scenes. This again linked the administrator to cosmology.
Originally a note from the author accompanied this. What do you think it means—does it relate to text in this chapter or does it relate to an illustration? “Put this with Indus seals:”
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