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<p>A <b>cylinder seal</b> is a small round cylinder, typically about one inch (2 to 3&nbsp;cm) in width, engraved with written characters or figurative scenes or both, used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two-dimensional surface, generally wet <a href="page.php?w=clay">clay</a>. According to some sources, cylinder seals were invented around <a href="page.php?w=3500_BC">3500 BC</a> in the <a href="page.php?w=Near_East">Near East</a>, at the contemporary sites of <a href="page.php?w=Uruk">Uruk</a> in southern <a href="page.php?w=Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a></p><p>
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