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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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"...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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;...

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

temples were sometimes branded with the seal of the eight-pointed star. On boundary stones and cylinder seals, the eight-pointed star is sometimes shown...

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

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...