What You Wish For

Alright, so the old saying may go, “Be careful what you wish for because it may come true,’ and but right now, I’m seeing it as, “Wish for what you want because it may come true.”

What did I wish for?

A seal. Everyone has been turning up these great seals in their fields and I had no real hope of finding even one in mine. The period I’m digging through wasn’t known for masterful craftsmanship on anything, relying mostly on harvesting structures from the previous period and making a rather boring style of pottery.

Anyway, I wished for a seal and after finding the floor of the structure I’ve been working on, I had to clean between the flagstones. I was hating on the cleaning, because everyone knows how much I hate trying to dig around rocks, when my trowel caught something small.

Something with a hole drilled through the side.

Something with marks carved into the bottom of it.

It was a seal.

I know if may not be much to look at and I can hear some of you saying, “Why didn’t you photograph the marks in the bottom?” but I decided to photograph it in situ and you’ll all have to deal with it.

The marks on the bottom are just a bunch of hash marks, nothing special. One that was found in another square not too long ago had hash marks that resembled a game of tic-tac-toe. My theory is that that one isn’t really a seal, but instead is an ancient version of a save game.

Just a theory.

Anyway, I’m super happy I managed to find a seal. And I just remembered it’s still sitting in the pencil case of my supervisor’s notebook. I guess I should go turn it in…