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Brak, seal impression, Mitanni, glyptic, potteryCopyright (c) 2019 ISIMU
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Resumo
Seal impressions on pottery are a recurrent feature during the Bronze Age in the Khabur region. Despite having numerous examples of cylinder sealed pottery in sites such as Tell Arbid or Tell Beydar, none of those present the seal impression at the very base of the vase. While studying some pottery evidence housed in the British Museum and coming from Tell Brak, I came across what certainly is a unique case of a seal impression on pottery in the Khabur region, a seal impression whose cylinder-seal had been already documented by Mallowan back in 1947, which is a Mitannian seal with parallels in sites such as Tell Afis and even Tepe Giyan in Iran. Exceptionally on this occasion a cyilinder seal and its very impression on a vase meet again thousands of years later.
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