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Mesopotamia - Artifacts by Lauren and Nicol ... A bulla is a football shaped clay container used as a record keeping source. It was sealed when clay was still wet. This way nobody could see, change, or remove what tokens were inside. Soon people began to make marks in the bulla.
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ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/vammesopotamia1.html
ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/vammesopotamia1.html
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Mesopotamia - Artifacts by Sara, Amber, and Michae ... The bulla and tokens were used for keeping track of business deals. This could have led to the first writing system. In order to help keep track of the records, they used small stone or clay tokens and each token was a different size or shape which stood for...
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ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/vammesopotamia2.html
ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/vammesopotamia2.html
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West Asia > Mesopotamia ... And like the rest of Mesopotamia, by the late 4th millenium BCE clay tokens were being stored inside bullae, oblong or spherical clay envelopes stamped with seal impressions, which most likely indicated the owners or contents of the tokens inside the envelopes.
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www.ancientscripts.com/elamite.html
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West Asia > Mesopotamia ... Another solution, mostly used for complex tokens, was to string the tokens to a solid oblong piece of clay called a bulla which usually had seal impressions on it.
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www.ancientscripts.com/cuneiform.html
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Mesopotamia was the birthplace of perhaps the world's oldest system of writing, which we now refer to as cuneiform. It received its modern designation from the wedge-shaped impressions composing its signs (from Latin cuneus "wedge"). ... ; 8. A bulla for a basket with documents; The Early Dynastic period (the mid...
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www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/12/2003/hm12_1_16.html
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Inside the bulla, the student will place the article that he or she wrote, or an appropriate item representing what he or she learned about Mesopotamia. At the end of the year or later in the year, the bulla could be opened and reviewed.
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coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/02_1_MysteryMeso.pd...
coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/02_1_MysteryMeso.pdf
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The emergence of civilization in Mesopotamia ... unpierced tokens encased in a clay "envelope" ("bulla") ... but usually, the bulla has representations of the tokens made with a finger or stylus...
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bruceowen.com/worldprehist/3250s11.htm
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Tablet, Cylinder Seal, and Bulla ... Learn about the civilization of Mesopotamia. ... Early Man WWW Resources < Table of Contents > Mesopotamia WWW Resources...
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www.ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/vammesopotamia.html
www.ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/vammesopotamia.html
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edusysweb.com/demo/cmv/v112g/mesopotamia.php
edusysweb.com/demo/cmv/v112g/mesopotamia.php
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