There is only one original example of the cook’s seal even though sealings of this seal are numerous in the corpus; so numerous that the inscription, naming the cook has been so worn that the name of the cook is unreadable. On the other hand from the queen’s household the nurse has at least two seals (that is there are two variations of her seal and in both her name is clear). But what is unique about the cook’s seals is that her first one was very worn from use so much so that she had a second one cut in a similar iconography, but not identical.
Discuss the later cook’s seal with the inscription showing.
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