Cylinder seal and modern impression: goddess leading a worshiper to a seated deity; bull god, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 20th–19th century B.C., Central Anatolia, Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Quartzite, 0.87 in. (2.21 cm), Stone-Cylinder Seals, Although engraved stones had been used as early as the seventh millennium B.C. to stamp impressions in clay, the invention in the fourth millennium B.C. of carved cylinders that could be rolled over clay allowed the development of more complex seal designs
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Cylinder seal, modern impression, goddess leading, worshiper, seated deity, bull god, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca, 20th–19th century B.C, Central Anatolia, Old, Quartzite, 0.87, 2.21 cm, Stone-Cylinder Seals, engraved, stones, early, seventh millennium, B.C, stamp impressions, clay, invention, fourth, carved cylinders, rolled, clay allowed, development, complex, designs
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