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(s.v. No. 12) and pp. 208-210.
11. C. J. Gadd, op. cit. (my note 1), p. 208.
note 1.
12. In addition, to our fig:. 7, a similar repre
sentation of a “waterman” is found in a
seal in the Staatlichc Museum. Berlin :
published by Anton Moortgat in Vorder-
asiatische Ilollsiegel (Berlin, 1940), PI. 65 :
545. It should be mentioned, however,
that Buchanan obviously discounts such
Near Eastern connections for the “water
1. This description is quoted from C. J. carrier” on the Gulf seal from Ur. in which
Gadd’s article, “Seals of Ancient Indian he secs “a clear case of Indian influence”
Style Found at Ur.” The proceedings of (Briggs Buchanan, “A Dated Seal Impre
the British Academy XVIII (1932), p. 194. ssion Connecting Babylonia and Ancient
2. For a seal which I date in the first Early India,” Archaeology 20 (1967), p. 105.
Dynastic Period in contrast to Briggs 13. For the sign of the Ilarappa script showing
Buchanan. who dated it in the protohis- a water carrier, cf, Marshall, op. cit.
toric period, cf, his Catalogue of Ancient (note 9)P. 446, No. 192 ; for an Egyptian
Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean representation, of Louise Klebs, Die Reliefs
Museum (Oxford, 1966), PI. 1 : 2, and my und Malereien dcs Mittlcrcn Reiches
comments in Bibliotheca Orientalis XXVII (Abhandlungendcr Heidclberger Akadeinie
(1970), p. 8. For seal designs of the Second dcr Wissenschaftcn, phil, hist. Klasse. 6
Early Dynastic period, cf Buchanan, op. Abhandlung 1922), p. 76, Abb. 52.
cit., PLs. 11-13. On the following plates 14. Drawings of these figures were published
of the same catalogue, which show seals of by William J. Hinke, A New Boundary
Third Early Dynastic period, the eye of Stone of Nebuchadnezzar, I (Philadelphia.
many of the animals is still indicated by a 1907), p . 103, Fig. 38, and by Alfred
hollow. Jeremias. Ilandbuch der altorientalischen
3. E.g., Kuml 1966. p. 79, a and f, from a site Geisteskultur (2nd ed.; Berlin and Leipzig,
on the north coast of the island, known as 1929), p. 209. Fig. 125.
Qala’at al-Bahrain. 15. “ New Votive Plaques from Nippur. ”
4. C. C. Lamberg - Karlovsky, “ The Proto- Journal of Near Eastern Studies XXII
Elamite Settlement at Tcpe Yahya, ” Iran (1963), PI. V.
IX (1971). pp. 139-152. 16. E.g., Sir Leonhard Woolley, Ur Excava
5. Pierre Amiet, La Glyptique mesopota- tions, II : The Royal Cemetery ( London,
mienne archaique (Paris, 1961), PI. 14 :235. 1934 ), Pis. 193 and 194. On the latter
6. M.E.L. Mallowan, “ Excavations at Brak plate. Nos. 25 (U. 14443) and 30 (U. 122258)
and Chagar Bazar.” Iraq IX (1947), PLs. show only the male figure drinking
XVIIJ : 1 and XX : 14 ; text, p. 122. It is through a tube while the women holds a
interesting that these schematically rend cup.
ered feet resemble closely those on the 17. E.g.. the clay plaque from Tello reproduced
later seals from Bahrain mentioned above by Marie-Therese Barrelet. Figurines et
in note 3. Seal designs of Susa B pub reliefs en terre cuite de la Mesopotamie
lished by Amiet also show related elements antique (Institut francais d’archeologie de
which may be abbreviated renderings of Beyrouth, Bibliotheque arch et hist.
feet : Glytique archaique. PI. 6 : 119 A and LXXXV, 1968), PI. L : 527, and the list
122. given by Ruth Opificius, Das altbaby-
7. Cf. T.G. Bibby in Kuml 1957. p. 157, re lonische Terrakottarelief (Untersuchungen
porting on the relative stratigraphic zur Assyriologic und altbabylonischen
position of the seals in Fig. 13, a-c. Archaologie 2. 1961), pp. 166-167, especially
8. Briggs Buchanan, “A Dated ‘Persian Gulf Nos. 604-606. 608, 609, and 612.
Seal and its Implications,” Studies in 18. Buchanan, op. cit. (my note 8). p. 206. note
Honor of Benno Landsberger ( Oriental 14, cites the two exceptional scenes with
Institute, University of Chicago, Assyri- the woman in the superior position. Most
ological Studies 16, 1965). pp. 204-209. others conform to the type shown in the
9. Sir John Marshall, Mohenjo-Daro and the clay plaques cited in note 20 above.
Indus Civilization (London, 1931),PI. CXII: 19. Kuml 1966, p. 79.
383. I wish to thank Corethia Qualls for 20. One of the impressions on clay from seals
reminding me of this seal. in private collections offered to the parti
10. C.J. Gadd. op. cit. (my note 1), PP. 199-200 cipants at the Conference in 1970.
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