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    A cylinder seal is a small round cylinder, typically about one inch (2 to 3 cm) in width, engraved with written characters or figurative scenes or both...
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    Eve cylinder seal, also known as the "temptation seal", is a small stone cylinder of post-Akkadian origin, dating from about 2200 to 2100 BC. The seal depicts...
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    Archaeologically, he is known from several objects, including six cylinder seals,and two scarab seals. His name appears as graffito in the tomb of queen Khuit...
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    Two main types of seals were used in the Ancient Near East, the stamp seal and the cylinder seal. Stamp seals first appeared in 'administrative' contexts...
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    Satans the friends of those who do not believe. A cylinder seal, known as the Adam and Eve cylinder seal, from post-Akkadian periods in Mesopotamia (c. 23rd...
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    The Zvenigorodsky seal, also known as the "Persian king and the defeated enemies", is an Achaemenid cylinder seal made from chalcedony. It is dated to...
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    of the cylinder. The piston has sliding rings and seals. The piston divides the inside of the cylinder into two chambers, the bottom chamber (cap end) and...
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    A bulla (Medieval Latin for "a round seal", from Classical Latin bulla, "bubble, blob"; plural bullae) is an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin),...
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  • is generally thought that cylinder seals were introduced from Mesopotamia to Egypt during the Naqada II period. Cylinder seals, some coming from Mesopotamia...
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    and "Enki and the World Order" (dissertation, Uni of Philadelphia) "Cylinder Seal of Ibni-Sharrum". Louvre Museum. "Site officiel du musée du Louvre"...
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    gasket provides the seal between the engine block and cylinder head(s). Its purpose is to seal the combustion gases within the cylinders and to avoid coolant...
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    associations. Stamp seal of an Egyptian named: Meru-the Answerer of Horus (Brooklyn Museum) Stamp seals (bottom row), cylinder seals (top row) Signaculum...
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    Akkadian cylinder seal dating to c. 2300 BCE depicting the deities Inanna, Enki, and Utu, three members of the Anunnaki...
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    impressed with cylinder seal. Receipt of goats, c. 2040 BC, year 7 of Amar-Sin. Neo-Sumerian. Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal. Receipt of goats...
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    centre already then seems to be indicated by a type of cylinder seal called the City Seals. These seals contain a set of Proto-Cuneiform signs which appear...
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    pottery painting declined as copper started to become popular, along with cylinder seals. Uruk King-Priest The term "Uruk period" was coined at a conference...
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    seem complete. Even before dominating the region, they continued the cylinder seal tradition, with designs which are often exceptionally energetic and...
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    vol. 108, no. 1, 2018, pp. 1–9. "CDLI-Found Texts". cdli.ucla.edu. "Cylinder Seal with King or God and Vanquished Lion". The Walters Art Museum. Norman...
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    Susa III/ Proto-Elamite cylinder seal, 3150–2800 BC. Louvre Museum, reference Sb 1484 Susa III/ Proto-Elamite cylinder seal 3150–2800 BC Louvre Museum...
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    in Ur, Babylon and Kish. The water buffalos that appear on Akkadian cylinder seals from the time of Naram-Sin (circa 2250 BCE) may have been imported to...
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    plant-based decorative schemes, though most sculptures were also painted. Cylinder seals have survived in large numbers, many with complex and detailed scenes...
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    and cylinder seals seem to indicate the existence of a league or amphictyony of Sumerian city-states. For example, clay tablets from Ur bear cylinder seal...
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    English archaeologist, Assyriologist, and epigraphist who specialised in cylinder seals. Barbara Parker was born on 14 July 1908 to Reginald Francis Parker...
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    period (2000-1800 BC). Royal Museums of Art and History - Brussels Cylinder seal showing the representation of a devotee (center) by goddess Lamma (left)...
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    archaeology and art history. In ancient Mesopotamia carved or engraved cylinder seals in stone or other materials were used. These could be rolled along to...
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    1988. Studies in the chronology and regional style of Old Babylonian Cylinder Seals. Bibliotheca Mesopotamica, Volume 23. Vedeler (2006), pp. 8–15. "However...
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    themes are varied. Another Tree of life type of confronted animals cylinder seal has a "hero grasping water buffalo" and a "bull-man grasping lions"...
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    A gas cylinder is a pressure vessel for storage and containment of gases at above atmospheric pressure. Gas storage cylinders may also be called bottles...
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    period cylinder seal (3350-2900 BC). Late uruk/ Jeldet Nasr period cylinder seal (3350-2900 BC). Jemdet Nasr-style Mesopotamian cylinder seal, from Grave...
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    when the Royal Cemetery of Ur was excavated between 1922 and 1934. Cylinder seal and impression in which appears a ritual scene before a temple façade;...
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