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Daily Data: Cylinder Seals

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Spot the deliberate mistake in the title sequence -_-

Image credits:
Sealed tablet from the Met Museum (https://tinyurl.com/y9n4tkrj)
Pink quartzite cylinder seal from the Walters Art Museum
Lapis lazuli cylinder seal from the Walters Art Museum (NOTE: This particular seal is Cypriot, but illustrates the end caps beautifully so was included anyway!)

More information:
Cylinder seals at the Met Museum- https://tinyurl.com/yb7nmpud
Cylinder seals at the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum - https://tinyurl.com/ycmw3m8w
Cylinder seals at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures - https://tinyurl.com/ycfax9qn

For general information and sources relating to the Ancient Near East, we recommend these websites:

http://www.etana.org/abzubib - collection of free and open-access data
https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/oriental-institute-publications-office - University of Chicago Oriental Institute, great collection of free books and articles
http://www.livius.org - general encyclopedia on the ancient world
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk - Mesopotamian literature
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu - collection of projects relating to Mesopotamia
http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/nepsd-frame.html - Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
https://cdli.ucla.edu - Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

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