# Plain tokens sealed in bullae and impressed on their surfaces precede and resemble the numerical signs of the Uruk V…

> Plain tokens sealed in bullae and impressed on their surfaces precede and resemble the numerical signs of the Uruk V numerical tablets.

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Evidence · Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk

# Plain tokens sealed in bullae and impressed on their surfaces precede and resemble the numerical signs of the Uruk V…

Plain tokens sealed in bullae and impressed on their surfaces precede and resemble the numerical signs of the Uruk V numerical tablets.

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## What it means

Key question[Were the clay tokens and bullae the direct ancestors of the proto-cuneiform signs?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT894EG53/were-the-clay-tokens-and-bullae-the-direct-ancestors-of-the)

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**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[The token theory](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/answers/ANS0DEDW56J28YC/the-token-theory)

Supports1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 2

[Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ9W53AAY/before-writing-volume-i-from-counting-to-cuneiform)

Schmandt-Besserat 1992

SRC

[Texts from the Late Uruk Period](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGX6K5549/texts-from-the-late-uruk-period)

Englund 1998

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Plain tokens sealed in bullae and impressed on their surfaces precede and resemble the numerical signs of the Uruk V… [Evidence EVD0DEDXNNPM05C]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDXNNPM05C
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**EVD** 0DEDXNNPM05C

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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/sessions/SES0DEDZMVP66KE/session-1-proto-cuneiform-seeded-corpus-readings-and-open) · 31 Oct 2026

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