TPO 25 Integrated Writing In 1938 an archaeologist in Iraq acquired a set of clay jars that had been excavated two years earlier by villagers constructing a railroad line The vessel was about 2 200 years old Each clay jay contained a copper cylinder surro

The reading passage and the lecture both discuss the ussage of vesels like battery during the anciant times, which was found in one archaeological site in Iraq. In the reading part, the author mentions that it could not be batteries because of the tree reasons. However on the listening part, the speaker challenges what the author states and refutes the reasons, citing that the reasons are not convincing.

To begin with, as mantioed in the article, the author sets fort tath if they were for making electicity, archaeologists might found the wairs and other electronical conductor with them. Nevertheless, the lecturer rebutes the idea asserting that the artifacts did not excavated with profational aechaeologists and they have discovered by local people who though the other vessels approximate to the cylinders is not salient enough to keep them. Or local people can noy recognize the wairs inside of the batteries. We cannot find out it any time.

Secondly, the author points out that other similar coper cylanders, which are found in one site in Seleucia, were for holding scrolles a jor. Nontheless, the lecturer faltly contradicts the idea asserting that they might firstly use for produce electricites with liqued around them, then they changed the ulitilize of this artifacts to holding acrolles. Put it in other words, they could alter the porpouse of them.

Finally, the author claims that the reasons behind producing batteries at the anciant time is not clear yet.In contrast, the professor is of the opinion that they might use them as vessel for magical shows to indicates they had magical power. In addition, anciant doctors might use them to hill the illnecess and it was a invisible power for people.