The seals show trade, yes, but the real evidence is in the clay—those thousands of identical, baked bricks. They measured life by water, saiba, not just kings. In my own crumbling house, I know the cost of one good drain; imagine a city of them. So when I write the chapter, I spend more lines on the weight of a standard brick than on the priest-king statue. It’s the quiet maths of survival that impresses a teacher.
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