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On the other hand, Richard Zettler, who has investigated thepottery profiles impressed into the jar sealings of the SIS 8-4 layers,suggests a date in ED I and/or ED I-II. 46 The question is obviously atricky one, and we will probably do best to date the SIS 8-4 strata toa time before the early ED IIIa.Early sealingsPublicationNo.UE III: 1: (=Scott 2005, No.215) – found atthe JN gravelevelUE III: 9 (=Matthews1993, No. 65 =Scott 2005, No.82),found inSIS 8UE III: 14 (=Matthews1993, No. 78 =Scott 2005, No.84), found inSIS 8Carriercontainer(cloth-coveredbasket)Reed mattingpackagepot withcoveringCounter-mark Inscription0 (col. I) X;ŠIDIM E 2 ; X;(col. II) NUN,PAP, BULUG 3= DIM 4 =MUNU 4 ,; DUR 2X X X; X;deliveringagencies?0 URI 3 +AB?Deliveringagency?0 KAM = tu 7 . 47liquid food?46 Zettler 1989, 379.47 TU 7 = not in ZATU but related to a group of signs HI x DIŠ, HI x AŠ, KAMa KAM 4 (Steinkeller-Postgate 1992, table on p. 16). Piotr Steinkeller pointsto the occurrence of this sign in a text of archaic Ur (UET II: 18: iii: 3) andinterprets its meaning as "soup". Also, KAM = tu 7 = ummaru = "eine Suppeoder Fleischbrühe" (Bauer 1989-1990, 86), "soup" (Gelb-Steinkeller-Whiting 1991, 293). In later ED Ur, a receptacle called HI x AŠ = sùrsometimes assumed gigantic proportions, as no less than 500 minas ofcopper were needed for its production; the lexeme also denoted a giganticand cumbersome weapon there (Alberti-Pomponio 1986, 97 ad text 44).40