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cylinder seal

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noun

  1. a small carved cylinder used especially by the ancient Mesopotamians to impress a design in wet clay.

Etymology

Origin of cylinder seal

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

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The only thing for us to do," said the professor, "is to get into the cylinder, seal it up, and trust to Providence.

From Five Thousand Miles Underground Or, the Mystery of the Centre of the Earth by Rockwood, Roy

The description of Paradise in Genesis ii seems to show traces of Babylonian influence, and the cylinder seal, Brit.

From The Babylonian Legends of the Creation by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

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