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Nippur limestone stamp seal, hieroglyph figure with eraka 'upraised arms', 5800 to 4000 BCE rebus eraka 'metal infusion'

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Join Professor Emeritus McGuire Gibson on Wednesday, November 6 for a lecture about the OI and Nippur. This limestone stamp seal, excavated by the OI 1952, shows a figure with upraised arms. It is Ubaid period (5800–4000 BC) or later.

This is an Indus Script hieroglyph.
er-aka'upraised arm' rebus: eraka'moltencast, copper, metal infusion'arka'gold,copper'. eraka, era, er-a = syn. erka, copper, weapons (Ka.) PLUS meḍ 'body' rebus: मृदु mṛdu, mẽṛhẽt, meḍ 'iron' ; med 'copper' (Slavic languages)

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