Cylinder seal
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Cylinder seal
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Published 2019-06-05T16:13:59+00:00
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Akkadian period shell cylinder seal depicting scenes of a seated god and goddess, their attendants, ducks, a date palm and a star.
A cylinder seal is a small round cylinder, typically about one inch (2 to 3 cm) in length, engraved with written characters or figurative scenes or both, used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two-dimensional surface, generally wet clay.
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| Date published | 05/06/2019 |
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| Title | Cylinder seal |
| Accession | NBC 5991 |
| Credit | Scanned and processed by Yale Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Digitization Lab Head Chelsea Alene Graham |
| Record | http://peabody.yale.edu/ |
| Place | Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History |
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