Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunter holding a lion; griffin attacking a stag; Master of Animals; double-headed eagle

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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 , Eastern Mediterranean, Hematite, in. ( cm), Stone-Cylinder Seals, Although engraved stones had been used as early as the seventh millennium to stamp impressions in clay, the invention in the fourth millennium of carved cylinders that could be rolled over clay allowed the development of more complex seal designs

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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