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QUESTION 14

What was a cylinder seal used for?
A. to get rid of pests
B. to keep the soil fertile
C. to sign their name
D. they used this as a form of currency

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Answer:

C to sign their there name and was used as a personal signature

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Answer:

C

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They are linked to the invention of the latter's cuneiform writing on clay tablets. Other sources, however, date the earliest cylinder seals to a much earlier time, to the Late Neolithic period (7600-6000 BC), hundreds of years before the invention of writing. (They were used as an administrative tool, a form of signature, as well as jewelry and as magical amulets; later versions would employ notations with Mesopotamian cuneiform. In later periods, they were used to notarize or attest to multiple impressions of clay documents. Graves and other sites housing precious items such as gold, silver, beads, and gemstones often included one or two cylinder seals, as honorific grave goods.

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