cylinder seal

Examples of cylinder seal in the following topics:

• Sculpture in Mesopotamia

  • Sculptural forms include humans, animals, and cylinder seals with cuneiform writing and imagery in the round or as reliefs.
  • Animals, along with forms of writing, also appear on early cylinder seals, which were carved from stones and used to notarize documents.
  • Like the cylinder seal found in Queen Puabi's tomb, the figures in the Tell Asmar Hoard show hieratic scale.
  • An Uruk-period cylinder seal and stamped clay tablet featuring monstrous lions and lion-headed eagles, on display at the Louvre Museum.
  • Cylinder seal and stamped clay fragment from the tomb of Queen Puabi (c. 2600 BCE)

• Art in the Second Millennium B.C.E.

  • The most common surviving forms of second millennium BCE Mesopotamian art are cylinder seals, relatively small free-standing figures, and reliefs of various sizes.

• Literature of the Qin Dynasty

  • Li Si is also credited with creating the "lesser-seal" style of calligraphy, also known as small seal script, which serves as a basis for the modern Chinese writing system and is still used in cards, posters, and advertising today.
  • Before the Qin conquest of the last six of the Warring States of Zhou China, local styles of characters evolved independently of one another for centuries, producing what are called the "Scripts of the Six States" or "Great Seal Script".
  • Characters which were different from those found in Qin were discarded, and Li Si's small seal characters became the standard for all regions within the empire.
  • Small seal script is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy that was standardized and promulgated as a national standard by Li Si, prime minister under the Qin Dynasty.

• Indus Valley Civilization

  • Many artistic artifacts such as ceramics, sculptures, seals, and jewelry have been excavated from this time—more, in fact, than from some civilizations which began centuries after its decline.
  • Archaeologists have excavated sculptures, seals, pottery, gold jewelry, elaborate beadwork, and anatomically detailed figurines in terracotta, ceramic, bronze, lead, tin, and steatite from the ancient Indus Valley area.
  • A number of bronze, gold, stone, and terracotta figures of girls in dance poses reveal the presence of some dance forms from the time, and a harp-like instrument depicted on a seal indicates the use of stringed musical instruments.
  • Between 400 and 600 distinct Indus symbols indicating a language have been found on ceramics, seals, and tablets, though the language remains entirely unknown to this day.
  • Discovered at Mohenjo-daro, this seal depicts a seated, horned figure surrounded by animals, who is commonly interpreted to be Pashupati, the "Lord of Cattle."

• Cézanne

  • Cézanne was interested in the simplification of naturally occurring forms to their geometric essentials, wanting to "treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone. " For example, a tree trunk may be conceived of as a cylinder and an apple or orange as a sphere.

• Domestic Architecture in Modern Africa

• Two-Dimensional Space

  • Almost any dimensional form can be represented by some combination of the cube, sphere, cylinder, and cone.

• Jade in Neolithic China

  • The most exemplary artifacts from the culture were its cong (cylinders, the largest of which weighs 3.5 kg), bi (discs) and Yue axes (ceremonial axes).

• Architecture under Hadrian

  • The Mausoleum of Hadrian was a large cylinder topped by a garden and quadriga statue.
  • The Mausoleum of Hadrian was a large cylinder topped by a garden and quadriga statue.

• Emphasis

  • Form may be created by the forming of two or more shapes or as three-dimensional shapes (cube, pyramid, sphere, cylinder, etc.).