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 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 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
cylinder seal — a small carved cylinder used esp. by the ancient Mesopotamians to impress a design in wet clay. [1885 90] * * * Small stone cylinder engraved in intaglio on its surface to leave impressions when rolled on wet clay. It first appeared с 3400–2900… … Universalium
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
Hydraulic cylinder — A Hydraulic cylinder (also called a linear hydraulic motor) is a mechanical actuator that is used to give a linear force through a linear stroke. It has many applications, notably in engineering vehicles. Operation Hydraulic cylinders get their… … Wikipedia
Diving cylinder — Diving cylinders to be filled at a diving air compressor station … Wikipedia
Mesopotamia, history of — ▪ historical region, Asia Introduction history of the region in southwestern Asia where the world s earliest civilization developed. The name comes from a Greek word meaning “between rivers,” referring to the land between the Tigris and… … Universalium
art and architecture, Mesopotamian — Introduction the art and architecture of the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations. The name Mesopotamia has been used with varying connotations by ancient writers. If, for convenience, it is to be considered synonymous with the modern… … Universalium
Confronted animals — The Gebel el Arak Knife, on display at the Louvre; the iconography on the reverse of the handle is two confronted lions, flanking a central figure (note confronted dogs and other animals below) Confronted animals, or confronted animal as an… … Wikipedia
