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2. Sealing wax - Wikipedia

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   Wax is used to verify that something such as a document is unopened, to verify the sender's identity (for example with a seal stamp or signet ring), and as decoration. Sealing wax can also be used to take impressions of other seals. Wax was used to seal letters close and later, from about the 16th century, envelopes.

3. Bulla (seal) - Wikipedia

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   A bulla (or clay envelope) and its contents on display at the Louvre. Uruk period (4000–3100 BC).. A bulla (Medieval Latin for "a round seal", from Classical Latin bulla, "bubble, blob"; plural bullae) is an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin), bitumen, or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication and for tamper-proofing whatever is attached to it ...

4. Ancient Near Eastern seals and sealing practices - Wikipedia

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   Özgüç, Nimet. "Seal Impressions from the Palaces at Acemhöyük." In Ancient Art in Seals, edited by Edith Porada, 61-80. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. Özgüç, Nimet. Kültepe-Kaniš/Neša: Seal Impressions on the Clay Envelopes from the Archives of the Native Peruwa and Assyrian Trader Uṣur-Ša-Ištar Son of Aššur-Imittī.

5. Seal (emblem) - Wikipedia

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   The seal-making device is also referred to as the seal matrix or die; the imprint it creates as the seal impression (or, more rarely, the sealing). [1] If the impression is made purely as a relief resulting from the greater pressure on the paper where the high parts of the matrix touch, the seal is known as a dry seal ; in other cases ink or ...

6. Seal of the president of the United States - Wikipedia

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   The information on Fillmore's seal is from an 1885 article in the Daily Graphic, and (according to Daniel S. Lamont, the private secretary to Grover Cleveland and one of the article's sources) the 1850 seal was still in use at that time and was used to seal envelopes sent to either house of Congress. The article claims that Stabler made two ...

7. Cylinder seal - Wikipedia

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   Hittite cylinder seals. Clay envelope usage, etc.; see Kultepe. Kassite (the Kassites), cylinder seals. Mittanian cylinder seals. Old Babylonian cylinder seals. Persian cylinder seals; see Darius I, Robinson ref. Proto-Elamite cylinder seals. Sumerian cylinder seals. Seals of the "Moon-God"; see Sin. see Ref. (Robinson), Seal of Ur-Nammu, 2112 ...