Cylinder seal rollout
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Cylinder seal rollout
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Published 2019-06-11T15:19:57+00:00
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Modern impression of an Uruk IV period marble cylinder seal with conoid top depicting sheep grazing flora and rosette decoration.
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 | 11/06/2019 |
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| Title | Cylinder seal rollout |
| Accession | NCBS 690 |
| 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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