The earlier of his seals (pictured) is a chalcedony cylinder seal with eleven lines of text and one line of five insects. It provides a prayer to the goddess Ninsun and gives his position as “expert accountant.” His other cylinder seal,Cylinder seal BM 122696. lists four generations of his ancestors of which Arad-Ea “scholar of accounting” (Sumerian: ummia niğkas) is the first. His father, Uššur-ana-Marduk, had been gá-dub-ba é-[kur?], governor of Nippur, his grandfather, Usi-ana-nuri-?, GIR3.NITA2 kurdilmunki-a, “regent” or “viceroy” of Dilmun, ancient Bahrain.
