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  2. Ancient Near Eastern seals and sealing practices - Wikipedia

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    Found in Telloh (ancient Girsu) Two main types of seals were used in the Ancient Near East, the stamp seal and the cylinder seal. Stamp seals first appeared in 'administrative' contexts in central and northern Mesopotamia in the seventh millennium and were used exclusively until the fifth millennium. Cylinder seals appeared first around 3600 BC ...

  3. Seal (East Asia) - Wikipedia

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    A seal, in an East and Southeast Asian context, is a general name for printing stamps and impressions thereof which are used in lieu of signatures in personal documents, office paperwork, contracts, art, or any item requiring acknowledgement or authorship. On documents they were usually used to print an impression using a pigmented paste or ink ...

  4. Cylinder seal - Wikipedia

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    Linescan camera image (reversed to resemble an impression). A cylinder seal is a small round cylinder, typically about one inch (2 to 3 cm) in length, engraved with written characters or figurative scenes or both, used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two-dimensional surface, generally wet clay.

  5. Sealing wax - Wikipedia

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    Sealing wax is a wax material of a seal which, after melting, hardens quickly (to paper, parchment, ribbons and wire, and other material), forming a bond that is difficult to break without noticeable tampering. Wax is used to verify that something such as a document is unopened, to verify the sender's identity (for example with a seal stamp or ...

  6. Seal of Muhammad - Wikipedia

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    The Seal of Muhammad ( Turkish: Muhammed'in mührü, Arabic: ختم الرسول, romanized : KḪatm ar-Rasūl) [a] is one of the relics of Muhammad kept in the Topkapı Palace by the Ottoman Sultans as part of the Sacred Relics collection. The most popular design is allegedly the replica of a seal used by Muhammad on several letters sent to ...

  7. Stamp seal - Wikipedia

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    The stamp seal (also impression seal) is a common seal die, frequently carved from stone, known at least since the 6th millennium BC ( Halaf culture [1]) and probably earlier. The dies were used to impress their picture or inscription into soft, prepared clay and sometimes in sealing wax . The oldest stamp seals were button-shaped objects with ...

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