Cylinder seal

…A seal made of small cylindrical stone with a pattern carved into the curved surface. It is also called a cylinder seal and is used by rolling it over a damp clay tablet. It appeared in Mesopotamia during the Uruk period at the end of the 4th millennium BCE and was widely used for a long period up until the Neo-Babylonian period. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "cylinder seal" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…小さな円筒形石材の曲面に文様を彫りこんだ印章。シリンダー･シールcylinder sealとも呼び，生乾きの粘土板文書の上にころがして使う。メソポタミアで前4千年紀末のウルク期に出現し，新バビロニア時代に至るまで長期にわたって広く愛用された。…

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