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Seal (emblem) — Present day impression of a Late Bronze Age seal … Wikipedia
Seal (device) — A seal can mean a wax seal bearing an impressed figure, or an embossed figure in paper, with the purpose of authenticating a document, but the term can also mean any device for making such impressions or embossments, essentially being a mould… … Wikipedia
Seal — may refer to:Legal* Seal (contract law), a legal formality for contracts and other instruments * Seal (device), an official stamp or symbol used as a means of authentication * Seal (Chinese), a stamp used in East Asia as a form of a signature *… … Wikipedia
Cylinder — most commonly refers to: Cylinder (geometry), a three dimensional geometric shape Cylinder may also refer to: Contents 1 Science and technology 1.1 Information storage … Wikipedia
CYLINDER SEALS — Cylinder seals are short pieces of semiprecious stones or, more rarely, metal, perforated along the axis so as to be suspended from a string and engraved with a decorative pattern or representational scene, and sometimes an inscription. When… … Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia
Cylinder seal — Mesopotamian limestone cylinder seal and impression worship of Shamash, (Louvre). A cylinder seal is a cylinder engraved with a picture story , used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two dimensional surface, generally wet clay.… … Wikipedia
SEAL, SEALS — In the Ancient Period The seal was employed from the beginning of the historical era as a method of identifying property, as protection against theft, to mark the clay stoppers of oil and wine jars or the strip with which packaged goods were… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
cylinder seals — Short pieces of stone, and sometimes other materials, that were engraved with pictures or words that formed recessed impressions in their surfaces. When pressed into moist clay, these cylinder seals produced raised images. These images denoted … Ancient Mesopotamia dictioary
Cylinder (engine) — Illustration of an engine cylinder with a cross section view of the piston, connecting rod, valves and spark plug. A cylinder is the central working part of a reciprocating engine or pump, the space in which a piston travels. Multiple cylinders… … Wikipedia
Cylinder seals — Ownership of documents, jars of oil and wine, and other precious commodities was indicated by means of a clay seal. Papyrus rolls were each folded in two and tied with a thread which was fastened with a clay seal, and the owner s special… … Ancient Egypt
