Where have all the Ur III seals gone?
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https://doi.org/10.33182/aijls.v3i2.2851Keywords:
Cylinder Seals, Ur III Period, Old Babylonian period, Re-cut objects, Heirloom objectsAbstract
In this paper I analyse the late 3rd millennium and early 2nd millennium seals in two mid-size collections and reach the conclusion that exceedingly few of them date to the Ur III period (c. 2100 – 2000 BC). I include some observations on other collections. I then ask the basic question: where have all the Ur III seals gone? After briefly exploring other options, I suggest with online visual evidence, that the vast majority of the Ur III seals were re-cut in the Old Babylonian period. At the end of the paper, I suggest that the absence or presence of seals from specific periods can be used to model larger historical trends.
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