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Leather Worker(?) in Rooms Framed by Serpo-Felines
Cylinder seal
Mesopotamia, Late Uruk period
(ca. 3500–3100 B.C.)
Serpentine
29.5 x 25 mm
Seal no. 1
Rotate seal
See CORSAIR catalog record for this item »
The earliest period of urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia is named Uruk after the preeminent sanctuary town of the
age. At Uruk, monumental architecture and sculpture were found in levels that also yielded cylinder seals and their
impressions on clay lumps placed over cords around the necks of jars or on clay balls enclosing small counting devices.
Somewhat later, cylinders were rolled onto tablets bearing the first signs of Sumerian writing.
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