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by Giovanni Garbini, (McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, Toronto), General Eds, Bernard S. Myers, New York, Trewin Copplestone, London, c 1966. Numerous examples of the
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that had to be rolled over the soft clay to leave an imprint. From the 12th century BC the previous designs were largely abandoned in favor of
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the stamp seals were common, largely because they served to authenticate legal documents, such as tax receipts, contracts, wills and decrees.
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The oldest stamp seals were button-shaped objects with primitive ornamental forms chiseled onto them. The stamp seals were replaced in the
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and its impression. The impression rotated clockwise 90 degrees probably yields a version of the
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Early Cretan seals: a study of chronology (Marburger Studien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Bd. 4)
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An impression of a cast copper-alloy seal matrix of medieval date (14th century AD)
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Indus seal, (with modern impression); from ca. mid- to late-3rd millennium BC.(?)
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The History of Marks from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
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maintained the tradition in their commercial stamps.
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Urartian
seal die
6th millennium BC
Halaf culture
sealing wax
4th millennium BC
cylinder seals
amphora stamps
Romans
signaculum
Byzantine
antiquity

Indus stamp-seals
stamp seals of the Minoan civilization
Stamp seal of an Egyptian named: Meru-the Answerer of Horus (Brooklyn Museum)
Horus
Brooklyn Museum
Stamp seals (bottom row), cylinder seals (top row)
Signaculum PRIMIT ("first")
An impression of a cast copper-alloy seal matrix of medieval date (14th century AD)
Ancient Near Eastern seals and sealing practices
Bulla (seal)
Indus script

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