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Excerpts from Roach, KJ, 2008, The Elamite Cylinder Seal Corpus, c. 3500 – 1000

BCE University of Sydney which point to use of Meluhha hieroglyphs:

14. Door sealing. Chogha Mish.

15. Jar sealing. Chogha Mish.

34. Sealed bulla and sealing. Susa. Acropole I,18.

57. Bulla sealed by two

cylinders and a stamp. Susa.

86. Sealed

tablet. Susa.

2

90. Sealed tablet. Susa.

94.

Sealing. Susa.

105. Sealing. Susa.

114. Bulla sealed by

two cylinders. Susa.

152.

Sealing. Susa.

3

355.

Sealings. Chogha Mish.

420. Sealing. Susa.

424.

Seaings. Chogha Mish.

790. Sealed tablet. Susa.

4

791. Sealed

bulla. Susa.

792. Sealed tablet.

Susa. Proto-Elamite period.

817. Grey marble. Susa. Ville Royale

Sassanid Peiod.

820. Sealed tablet. Susa.

5

823. Sealed tablet.

Susa.

830. Sealed

tablet. Susa.

833. Sealing. Susa.

837. Sealing. Susa.

837. Sealing. Susa.

6

842.

Greylimestone. Susa.

916. Bitumen aggregate. Susa.

958.

Chlorite/limestone. Susa.

994. Bitumen aggregate. Susa.

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999. Green grey-stone.

Godin Tepe.

1003. Sealing. Susa. 1022.

Black marble. Susa.

1032. Sealed tablet. Susa. Proto-

Elamite.

1048. Sealed

tablet. Susa.

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1135. Glazed steatite. Susa.

1136. Glazed steatite. Susa.

1153. White limestone. Susa.

1173. Glazed steatite. Susa.

1714. Grey limestone. Susa.

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1716. Light green schist. Susa.

1754. Light green schist. Susa.

1878.

Sealing. Susa.

1988. Lapis lazuli. Susa.

10

2000. Sealing. Susa.

2081. Terra cotta. Susa.

2132. Bitumen aggregate. Susa.

2134. Black marble. Susa.

11

2139. Black marble. Susa.

2209. Yellowish-green jasper. Susa.

2211. Sealing. Susa.

2212. Black rock. Susa.

12

2213.

Sealings. Susa. Egigi, major-domo, servant of Eshpum.

2228. Light green serpentine. Susa.

2246. Green serpentine. Susa.

2247. Light green

serpentine. Susa. Lugalidda, great cupbearer of Adab.

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2248. Sealed bulla. Susa. Epirmupi, the Strong,

Liburbeli, cupbearer, his servant.

1009. Jar sealing. Tal-I

Malyan.

M154. En-hedu-anna, daughter of Sargon…kikudu, the scibe (is

your servant)

14

Urartu. The circular rim

with attached wings is a representation of the solar disk or sometimes called the

winged disk.

Ashur?

15

No. 2248. Epirmupi. Akkadian period

official/governor

Mesopotamian parallel.

No. 2213. Eshpum. Akkadian period

official/governor

Ur seal. Seal inscription erased to

allow for re-use. After Collon 2005: 122.