Cylinder seals are a form of impression seal, a category which includes the stamp seal and finger ring seal. They survive in fairly large numbers and are important as art, especially in the Babylonian and earlier Assyrian periods.

The Spurlock Museum houses a collection of 59 ancient Mesopotamian cylinder seals. These are small stone cylinders, about an inch tall, with carved designs on their curved surfaces. The seals were rolled along the wet clay of a cuneiform tablet, creating an impression of the design on the surface that acted as the owner's identifying mark ...

2024年12月23日 · Cylinder seals emerged during the late Uruk period (c. 3500–3100 BCE), coinciding with the development of writing, monumental architecture, and urbanization in Mesopotamia. This period marked a shift from smaller, stamp-like …

Title: Cylinder seal. Period: Old Babylonian. Date: ca. 18th–17th century BCE. Geography: Mesopotamia. Culture: Babylonian. Medium: Hematite. Dimensions: 0.94 in. (2.39 cm) Credit Line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1987. Object Number: 1987.96.5

Title: Cylinder seal with cultic scene. Period: Neo-Assyrian. Date: 8th century BCE. Geography: Mesopotamia. Culture: Assyrian. Medium: Mottled and veined gray and black Jasper (Quartz) Dimensions: 1.61 in. (4.09 cm) Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1987. Object Number: 1987.200.1

Seals from the Gulf region have similarly been found in Indus cities. The finds suggest active trade and exchange between these areas in the third millennium B.C.E. Seals often feature a single, large animal such as buffaloes, rhinoceroses, and elephants. The animals are always shown in profile and sometimes standing alongside feeding troughs.

2016年10月28日 · Babylon Cylinder Seal from 600 BCE shows Nuclear Bomb and explosion, made during era of Nebuchadnezzar II, who was a Chaldean king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Cylinder seals were invented around 3500 BCE in the Near East, at the contemporary sites of Susa in south-western Iran and Uruk in southern Mesopotamia.

Seals as administrative tools have their origin in the sixth millennium BCE in the Syro-Mesopotamia heartland of the Tigris and Euphrates valley. Beginning as stamp seals, cylindrically shaped seals were invented at the same time as proto-cuneiform writing, in the middle of the fourth millennium BCE.

The seals and seal impressions are the real jewels of the Babylonian Collections of the Museum. Up to the present day, they number about 804 stone seals of various forms, 3 stone or metal rings, and 226 seal impressions on clay.

2016年2月14日 · The cylindrical seals that appeared at the end of the Uruk period (c.3500-3100 BC) began to be used to seal the first written documents. This chlorite cylinder seal from about 2300 BC reveals the 5th King of Akkad and other scenes. The inscription reads, " the divine Sharkalisharri, king of Akkad, Ibni-sharrum, the scribe, is his servant.