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A Cylinder Seal with a History
Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 1951documented, for it was brought from the Near East to France by M. Cousin6ry in 1817; in 1845 it was acquired for the national collection from the Collection F61ix Lajard into which it had passed. This information is important because it guarantees the genuineness of the seal which measures ht. 27 mm., diam. 11 mm. (Fig. 1)1. The scene represented on it
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Middle Bronze Age Cylinder Seal and Cylinder Seal Impression from Lachish
Tel Aviv, 1998Etude de deux sceaux-cylindres provenant de Tel Lachish, en Palestine, datant de l'âge du Bronze moyen. Dans la premiere partie l'A analyse l'impression d'un sceau-cylindre sur l'anse d'un bol, notamment son iconographie, puis, en deuxieme partie, un sceau-cylindre provenant d'une tombe. Ces deux objets revelent une tradition palestinienne particuliere.
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Cylinder seals, which emerged at the end of the 4th millennium BCE between Mesopotamia and Iran, are small engraved cylinders used to roll images onto clay. Used for nearly three millennia, they played a key role in administrative procedures and the assertion of political legitimacy.
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Iraq, 1949
The cylinder seals and seal impressions from Brak have an importance out of proportion to the quality of their workmanship. All the circumstances of their discovery are scrupulously recorded, a great help in determining the approximate date of each piece, and a sure guaranty against any suspicion of forgery.
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The cylinder seals and seal impressions from Brak have an importance out of proportion to the quality of their workmanship. All the circumstances of their discovery are scrupulously recorded, a great help in determining the approximate date of each piece, and a sure guaranty against any suspicion of forgery.
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American Antiquity, 1966
AbstractA cylinder seal, apparently from the Olmec occupation at Tlatilco, is inscribed with what may be the oldest writing known from Mesoamerica. The writing system is unlike any previously known and is typologically more advanced than other Mesoamerican systems.
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AbstractA cylinder seal, apparently from the Olmec occupation at Tlatilco, is inscribed with what may be the oldest writing known from Mesoamerica. The writing system is unlike any previously known and is typologically more advanced than other Mesoamerican systems.
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Iraq, 1939
SIR LEONARD WOOLLEY found last year at Al Mina in the surface soil an interesting cylinder seal. It is published, but without comment, in J.JS. I938, pl. xv. It is now in the British Museum, numbered I26064(Plate I, 2). It is of whitish chalcedony, il inches high.
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SIR LEONARD WOOLLEY found last year at Al Mina in the surface soil an interesting cylinder seal. It is published, but without comment, in J.JS. I938, pl. xv. It is now in the British Museum, numbered I26064(Plate I, 2). It is of whitish chalcedony, il inches high.
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Iraq, 1988
“Terracotta …, Amulet in the form of a cylinder seal … This terracotta object is an example of the kind of thing that is so crude that no one wants to publish it, with the incidental result that we probably have a somewhat distorted idea of the average standard of production in some periods; many authentic amulets or seals of this quality have probably
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“Terracotta …, Amulet in the form of a cylinder seal … This terracotta object is an example of the kind of thing that is so crude that no one wants to publish it, with the incidental result that we probably have a somewhat distorted idea of the average standard of production in some periods; many authentic amulets or seals of this quality have probably
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The Origin of Winnirke's Cylinder Seal
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1946the later half of the fifteenth century B.C.2 The tablets written for the first generation, Tebiptilla's parents Pubi-henni and Winnirke, can be easily distinguished from the later ones. Pubi-henni appears on only one tablet,3 which is sealed with a cylinder later used by Tehiptilla and engraved in a style which shows On both imprints the Old ...
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Research on Cylinder Friction Behavior Based on Seal Deformation
Mechanisms and Machine Science, 2022Wu Jian
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