Abstract
Abstract This article discusses the career and the seal of Bulālum, a temple official of the Ebabbar, the Samas temple in Old Babylonian Sippar. His career shows a long and as-yet inexplicable gap in which neither he nor his seal are attested. Also, his seal displays some remarkable changes throughout the period in which it was used. The first changes in the seal occur shortly before the gap in Bulālum’s period of attested activity. At the end of that period, the seal had undergone further changes. I analyze the changes in the seal and the pattern of attestations of both the seal in its different phases and its owner, and evaluate several possible explanations for this pattern and for the seal’s changing appearance.
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