The king's workshop

Introduction

The number of seal impressions connected with the king is appreciably smaller than those of either the queen or her courtiers. We have concluded that this is due to the fact that the area of the royal palace we have excavated is connected with the queen and was a working area where sealed containers were opened by her staff thereby breaking the seal impressions used to seal them. The six known seals of the king in the corpus are evidenced by only 12 rollings;one of them, A1q914.8, had two rollings while the other five had only traces of a single rolling. Therefore the result is that many fewer rollings were found for the king than for the queen’s seals.

Because of this we know little about the King’s workshop or workshops.

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King’s Iconography

Akkadian iconography, smaller seals (CK), new settings eg. globe, lion at feet,of child at knees.

If the king is shown in his seals (eg. in one of child with feathers) then he is emphasized through the iconography, but this is not as certain as in the queen’s seals. If the king is shown in his seals (eg. in one of child with feathers) then he is emphasized through the iconography, but this is not as certain as in the queen’s seals.

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Style

Finer carved seals , crisp, fine details , include depictions of deities known from southern Akkadian iconography, smaller seals (CK), new settings eg. globe, lion at feet, of child at knees.

The seal impressions correlated with the composite drawings are as follows:

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