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The place of discovery of this seal is unknown, and it is currently part of Shlomo Moussaieff's private collection. The seal contains an ancient Hebrew inscription mentioning the name of Ahaz of Judah, as well as the name of his father, Jotham (Jotham), identifying Ahaz as the "king of Judah". The bulla contains a fingerprint which may belong ...
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 ...
Straight cylinder seals; average diameter c. 1.6 cm, average height ranging between 3.2-4.7 cm: Agate, limestone, quartz, jasper, carnelian, lapis-lazuli, talc, frit; either cutting of high quality or - for the cut-style - cursory engraving with extensive use of the cutting wheel: Tablet and envelope sealings; container and door sealings
Bulla (dermatology), large blister; Bulla, a focal lung pneumatosis, an air pocket in the lung; Auditory bulla, a hollow bony structure on the skull enclosing the ear; Ethmoid bulla, part of the ethmoid bone of the skull; Bulla, a genus of sea snails
The seals can live for as many as 30 years in the wild, while dealing with predators like orcas and larger leopard seals. They survive on fish, squid, and other smaller prey to survive.
The King Hezekiah bulla is a 3 mm thick soft bulla (piece of clay with the impression of a seal) measuring 13 × 12 mm (½ in × ½ in). It was found in an archaeological excavation together with 33 other seals, figurines and ceramics, in an ancient refuse dump adjacent to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem by Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar .
Since the 12th century, papal bulls have carried a leaden seal with the heads of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul on one side and the pope's name on the other. Papal bulls were originally issued by the pope for many kinds of communication of a public nature, but by the 13th century, papal bulls were only used for the most formal or ...
Bulla resiliens Donovan, 1801 Eucampe donovani Leach, 1847 (substitute name for Bulla akera) Akera bullata , named the royal flush sea slug , [ 5 ] is a species of sea snail (or sea slug ), a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Akeridae , a family that is related to the sea hares .