Similar sealings in the Museum of the Hermitage at St. Petersburg have been published by M.
While some stone seals and claysealings have been found in the lowest stratum of the mound, they are not cylindrical but in the form of flat stamps.
The sealings are no less important for the study of Sumerian art, and they prove that seal-cutting must have already been practised by the Sumerians for a considerable length of time.
The sealings upon tablets of the period afford some indication of the decrease in influence attaching to the office of patesi, which resulted from the centralization of authority in Ur.
The presence of the sealings and seal-cylinders, resembling in form and design those of the early period at Tello, in itself suggests that Fâra marks the site of an early Sumerian town.
Representations of ships are not common, but several have been observed on Aegean gems, gem-sealings and vases.
The sealings of the various officials, of which over 200 varieties have been found, give an insight into the public arrangements (Petrie, Royal Tombs, i.
For a remarkable group of sealings found at Zakro see Journ.
The excavations did not yield a large number of original gems of this class, but a great number of clay sealings from such signets were discovered.
Among the more interesting objects found were sealings of yellow clay, which were curiously enough of different types at opposite ends of the tomb.
The most advanced stage of art in the sealings of the first dynasty, is No.
This lesser chamber had no remains of flooring; it contained many large sealings of jars, and seems to have been for all the funeral provision, like the eight chambers around the tomb of Merneit.
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