Cylinder Seals
The reference below, Garbini, covers many of the following categories of cylinder seal.
A categorization of cylinder seals:
- Akkadian cylinder seals.
- Akkadian seal, ca. 2300 BC, stone seal w/ modern impression. See National Geographic Ref. The glyptic (the Scenes) shows "God in barge", people, and offerings.
- Assyrian cylinder seals.
- Cypriote Cylinder Seals.
- Egyptian cylinder seals.
- Egyptian Naqada period (tombs, graves), (imported).
- Egyptian Faience; see Pepi I ext link.
- Hittite cylinder seals.
- Clay envelope usage, etc.; see Kultepe.
- Kassite (the Kassites), cylinder seals.
- Mittanian cylinder seals.
- Old Babylonian cylinder seals.
- Persian cylinder seals; see Darius I, Robinson ref.
- Proto-Elamite cylinder seals.
- Sumerian cylinder seals.
- Seals of the "Moon-God"; see Sin.
- see Ref. (Robinson), Seal of Ur-Nammu, 2112-2095 BC. Close-up picture of Seal, and adjacent 'modern impression', high resolution, 2X-3X natural size.
- "Shamash pictographic seals"; see Mari, Syria.
- Neo-Sumerian cylinder seals.
- see Ref (Garbini), "Seated God, and Worshippers", Cylinder seal, and a modern Impressin, p. 40, (British Museum, London).
- Syrian cylinder seals.
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