Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunter holding a lion; griffin attacking a stag; Master of Animals; double-headed eagle, Late Bronze Age, ca. 14th century B.C., Eastern Mediterranean, Hematite, 0.83 in. (2.11 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, hunter holding, lion, griffin attacking, stag, Master, Animals, double-headed eagle, Late Bronze Age, ca, 14th century B.C, Eastern Mediterranean, Hematite, 0.83, 2.11 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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