Cylinder seal and modern impression: male figure dominating human-headed winged lions, ca. 8th–7th century

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Cylinder seal and modern impression: male figure dominating human-headed winged lions, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 8th–7th century , Mesopotamia, Assyrian, Chalcedony, H. 1 9/16 in. ( cm); Diam. 5/8 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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