Transition Note - 4. Alphanumeric Notation and the Calendrical-Musical Kosmos

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The Creation of Order »  Query: 4. Alphanumeric Notation and the Calendrical-Musical Kosmos

Transition Note

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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.

[Omitted text: Hence, a “magical” character, at the same time that they were economic and administrative.]

The following text was originally written here. Can you help us figure out what was meant here so we can add it back to the chapter body?: Hence, a “magical” character, at the same time that they were economic and administrative.

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