III ยท Seals Across the Ages
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The longest-lived design in human history.

For 3,100 years the cylinder seal's form never changed โ€” the most enduring visual system ever devised, from Early Dynastic Sumer to the fall of Assyria.

Catalogued Seals by Imperial Period
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0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 2,340 4,720 3,080 3,560 1,870 EARLY DYNASTIC AKKADIAN NEO-SUMERIAN OLD BABYLONIAN NEO-ASSYRIAN 2900 โ€“ 2350 BCE 2350 โ€“ 2150 BCE 2150 โ€“ 2000 BCE 2000 โ€“ 1600 BCE 900 โ€“ 610 BCE