Impression seal

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The Impression seal is the common seal, that leaves an impression, typically in clay (but not excluding the obvious "wax impression seals"). In antiquity they are common, because they represent "themes", of the society. There are more than the two (2), most common types, but the first to be discussed are the "cylinder seal", and the "stamp seal". Others, less common, would be the Egyptian, or Levantine, or Canaanite, 'Scaraboid seal', or the 'metal stamp seal'.

This start of the Impression seal page, at this time does not address the "Authority", or "authorization" of the seal. It only deals with the "impression" quality of the seal. Nor does it address the themes, themselves.

[edit] See also

• Bulla (seal)

• The following are subcategories of the "Impression seal":
  • Cylinder seal; many examples abound; they also have the religious/mythological themes.
    • Darius I

• • Stamp seal
    • LMLK seal from Lachish, ca 700 BC.
    • Tell Halaf

• • Scaraboid seal

[edit] References

• Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Tablets, Cones, and Bricks of the Third and Second Millennia B.C., vol. 1 (New York, 1988). The final section(Bricks) of the book concerns "Cylinder Seals", with a Foreword describing the purpose of the section as to instigate Research into Cylinder Seals. The 'cylinder sealing' on the Bricks, was done multiple times per brick. Some are of high quality, and some are not.