The career and the Seal of Bulālum, doorkeeper of the Ebabbar temple at Sippar
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- Guido Suurmeijer (UGent)
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- This article discusses the career and the seal of Bulalum, a temple official of the Ebabbar, the Samas temple in Old Babylonian Sippar. His career shows a long and as-yet inexplicable gap in which neither he nor his seal are attested. Also, his seal displays some remarkable changes throughout the period in which it was used. The first changes in the seal occur shortly before the gap in Bulalum's period of attested activity. At the end of that period, the seal had undergone further changes. I analyze the changes in the seal and the pattern of attestations of both the seal in its different phases and its owner, and evaluate several possible explanations for this pattern and for the seal's changing appearance.
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- old babylonian, seal, temple, sippar
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-1076304
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- Suurmeijer, Guido. “The Career and the Seal of Bulālum, Doorkeeper of the Ebabbar Temple at Sippar.” JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES, vol. 71, no. 2, 2012, pp. 325–35, doi:10.1086/666643.
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- Suurmeijer, G. (2012). The career and the Seal of Bulālum, doorkeeper of the Ebabbar temple at Sippar. JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES, 71(2), 325–335. https://doi.org/10.1086/666643
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- Suurmeijer, Guido. 2012. “The Career and the Seal of Bulālum, Doorkeeper of the Ebabbar Temple at Sippar.” JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 71 (2): 325–35. https://doi.org/10.1086/666643.
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- Suurmeijer, Guido. 2012. “The Career and the Seal of Bulālum, Doorkeeper of the Ebabbar Temple at Sippar.” JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 71 (2): 325–335. doi:10.1086/666643.
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- 1.Suurmeijer G. The career and the Seal of Bulālum, doorkeeper of the Ebabbar temple at Sippar. JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES. 2012;71(2):325–35.
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- [1]G. Suurmeijer, “The career and the Seal of Bulālum, doorkeeper of the Ebabbar temple at Sippar,” JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 325–335, 2012.
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abstract = {{This article discusses the career and the seal of Bulalum, a temple official of the Ebabbar, the Samas temple in Old Babylonian Sippar. His career shows a long and as-yet inexplicable gap in which neither he nor his seal are attested. Also, his seal displays some remarkable changes throughout the period in which it was used. The first changes in the seal occur shortly before the gap in Bulalum's period of attested activity. At the end of that period, the seal had undergone further changes. I analyze the changes in the seal and the pattern of attestations of both the seal in its different phases and its owner, and evaluate several possible explanations for this pattern and for the seal's changing appearance.}},
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keywords = {{old babylonian,seal,temple,sippar}},
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pages = {{325--335}},
title = {{The career and the Seal of Bulālum, doorkeeper of the Ebabbar temple at Sippar}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1086/666643}},
volume = {{71}},
year = {{2012}},
}
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