Cylinder seal
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Cylinder seal
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Published 2019-06-06T14:56:02+00:00
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Akkadian period shell cylinder seal featuring scenes with a woman on a bed with bull’s legs, a scorpion and vessels as well as Stags divided by date palms.
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 | 06/06/2019 |
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Title | Cylinder seal |
Accession | NBC 8956 |
Record | http://peabody.yale.edu/ |
Place | Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History |
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