A113395-6/FM156668
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| This basalt cylinder seal (left) is one of many excavated at the ancient Sumerian capital of Kish in Iraq during the Field Museum-Oxford University Joint Expedition to that site in 1922-33. The impression (right) was made by rolling the seal across soft clay. Such seals were used for sealing documents written in cuneiform. Early Dynastic Period III (ca. 2300 B.C.).
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