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cylinder seal
noun
- a small carved cylinder used especially by the ancient Mesopotamians to impress a design in wet clay.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cylinder seal1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
There is apparently only one isolated occurrence of a camel on a cylinder-seal, and that belongs to the Persian period.
From Project Gutenberg
No. 85-4-8, 1; it is shaped like a cylinder-seal, and is inscribed with an incantation for Shamash-Killni.
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The cylinder-seal was employed in Assyria from the earliest periods of her history, Fig. 72.
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