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٠of note hat no sealings fron door egs hae ye‫ ﺍ‬been found at Saar, though
a٠ sorrme
sealings are so fragmentary thal this ossibility cannot be entirely ruled out.

As ell as the sealings fron

jars or bundles, there are a fe-.

ieces of tags or labels. Of thece,

the most interesting is an oal ‫ﺍ‬ag

ith the remains of a string hole at

one end, shoing signs of burnirn‫ﻉ‬,

and ith to different imressiorn‫ﺕ‬

on it (2:11). One fact shos a

standing fig‫ﻫ‬re in a short sir٤,

hile the second shos a stylied

heel of four, horned, aniaml

heads joined at the center by a

large hatched circle. t has neeb

suggested elsehere that theee

animal grous may hae neb

used by a articular grou of

eole ithin society ho ielded

economic and administratie

oe(9). This tag ith is‫ ﺍ‬o

imressions may suort the

Fig.21: 'Seal imression shoing nuen hyothesis, as the animal heel

eaing, 196٠١ (Scale 2:1) design can be seen as counter

signing or alidating hte rifst sela,

in a ay aralleled at Malyan and many other sites from the fourth milleinnum

onardg (1.)

As remared in reious years, the disrtibuiton of seals, and no of imressiorns,
is ery uneen. House 1, no fully ecaated has yielded the highest concentration,
ith ten comlete seals and a clay toen. The designs on the seals are all differne,t
and there is no common theme.

House roduced fie seal1‫ﻭ‬1)), and House 21, sitll under ecaation, ahs
already roduced four seals and ten imressions. House 6 roduced three seals, one
of them shell, and three imressions. This building, as discussed aboe, seems to
hae had a secialied function. The imressions, one of the stone seals, and hte shell
seal, came from to leels in area 68, hich from its osiiton in the building, may
ahe been an oen court. hTe second stone seal came from Area to hte rear ٤ the
bu٠ildi٠ng. House , adj٠acent to House 6, iy٠elded trhee seals and to sael
imressions.

House 211, also sit٠ll i٠n the roc٠ess of ecaaoiton٠ , roide:d tenty t١ seal

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