The first locks in history? Today I'm talking about an ancient clay sealing with expert discussion from Holly Pittman, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, specialist in ancient seals and sealings, and director of the Lagash Archaeological Project.
Check out the Lagash Archaeological Project website:
web.sas.upenn.edu/lagash/
I spent March and April 2022 in southern Iraq excavating at the ancient city of Lagash with a Penn Museum project (along with the University of Pisa and the University of Cambridge). While there, I made a series of short films about various finds we uncovered. Thus begins my series of Ancient Artifacts for Artifactually Speaking...
Thank you for such insights into such every day aspects. It helps in creating a much more complete, vivid picture of such a distant culture.
So envious of people in the field, must be so much fun and fascinating finds around the dig site.
What's interesting is that we use somewhat similar seals today; delivery trucks are sometimes sealed with tabs that can't be put back on once they're removed, to prove that they weren't opened in transit.
I love your informative content. Oddly enough, I found you through Milo the miniminute man lol. Keep up the good work. I would love to see a collaboration between the two of you. Thanks!
Love that you're finally getting the attention you deserve. Hopefully this channel really starts to blow up
The length of these videos is great for a beginner like me.
Ok, this just reminds me of the "warranty void if seal broken" tape on the back of my computer.
Very good video
When did people start marking spoilable things in regards to when it will expire, or when it was packed up.
Is it something to do with people in the death profession? It looks like a buried body outside a city.
What's the difference between a lock and a seal, in new England, Jamestown etc, 1700s or there abouts, they used lead seals on textile bundles, but that is no lock
I wonder if the patchwork circle is supposed to be the sun.
That was my first impression
Bulla/Bullae? Isn't that what a clay sealing called?
Bullae are typically marked by sealings, but not all clay sealings are bullae. We tend to the use the word bulla for a particular type of economic clay tag that marked goods or carried counts of goods. The type of sealings on doors or around the necks of jars we usually just assign the more generic term sealing.
Thanks for the clarification!
4:00 clearly a person holding something and commodities behind him? That is not clear to me. Using a lot of imagination in my opinion. I’m often wrong of course!
kind of not the point of the video, but is that a fingerprint in the clay piece at 3:28? or what else is causing that striation haha
Brand protection isn't an all that novel concept.
The unknown image looked like a person picking fruit, harder to see because most of it is missing