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...

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...

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...

goddess leading the owner of the seal. Akkadian cylinder seal depicting Ea travelling on his boat. Akkadian cylinder seal depicting four deities stepping...

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...

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...

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),...

Akkadian cylinder seal dating to c. 2300 BCE depicting the deities Inanna, Enki, and Utu, three members of the Anunnaki...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cylinder seals are generally thought to have been derived from Mesopotamian examples, in an instance of Egypt-Mesopotamia relations. Ivory cylinder seals...

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...

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...

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...

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...

1988. Studies in the chronology and regional style of Old Babylonian Cylinder Seals. Bibliotheca Mesopotamica, Volume 23. Vedeler (2006), pp. 8–15. "However...

period (2000-1800 BC). Royal Museums of Art and History - Brussels Cylinder seal showing the representation of a devotee (center) by goddess Lamma (left)...

associations. Stamp seal of an Egyptian named: Meru-the Answerer of Horus (Brooklyn Museum) Stamp seals (bottom row), cylinder seals (top row) Signaculum...

seem complete. Even before dominating the region, they continued the cylinder seal tradition, with designs which are often exceptionally energetic and...

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...

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...

is generally thought that cylinder seals were introduced from Mesopotamia to Egypt during the Naqada II period. Cylinder seals, some coming from Mesopotamia...

for example, have yielded specimens from c. 1800 BCE, including one cylinder seal depicting an ibex defending himself from a hunting dog. From the similar...

plant-based decorative schemes, though most sculptures were also painted. Cylinder seals have survived in large numbers, many with complex and detailed scenes...

Nevertheless, the biggest clues that denoted her title as queen was a cylinder seal with her name on the inscription and her crown, which was made out of...

BC). Examples include the Narmer Palette and the Oxford Palette. The cylinder seal of Uruk (image above) displays the motif very clearly. Typically, two...

English archaeologist, Assyriologist, and epigraphist who specialised in cylinder seals. Barbara Parker was born on 14 July 1908 to Reginald Francis Parker...

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"...