Cylinder seal and modern impression: winged horse with claws and horns, ca. 14th–13th century
Cylinder seal and modern impression: winged horse with claws and horns, Middle Assyrian, ca. 14th–13th century , Northern Mesopotamia, Assyrian, Chalcedony, H. 1 3/8 in. ( cm); Diam. 1/2 in. ( cm), Stone-Cylinder Seals-Inscribed, 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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