Source 2.1
Question: How might a prominent landowner, a leading official, a clan, or a merchant use such a seal?
Depending on a person's occupation the seals may have been used to place on documents or letters as a identifier. Or as a identifier on pieces a merchant had been selling but I am unsure if merchants were concerned with being known by their work and if they had been trying to have the same people return to them to buy things again. The symbol maybe shows a specific class in society or occupation. The markings above the symbol might have been a name assuming that individual names were used then. Or a might have been a person’s title as suggested by the reading.
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