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  2. Medieval letter tile - Wikipedia

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    Medieval letter tiles are one-letter ceramic tiles that were employed in monasteries and churches of the late Middle Ages for the creation of Christian inscriptions on floors and walls. They were created by pressing stamps bearing a reverse image into soft clay , which was then baked hard, and they were used to form words by assembling single ...

  3. Seal (emblem) - Wikipedia

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    These are applied to all letters, invoices issued, and similar documents. In Europe these are today plastic self-inking stamps. Notaries also still use seals on a daily basis. At least in Britain, each registered notary has an individual personal seal, registered with the authorities, which includes his or her name and a pictorial emblem, often ...

  4. Ancient Near Eastern seals and sealing practices - Wikipedia

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    They gradually replaced stamp seals, becoming the tool of a rising class of bureaucrats in the early stages of state formation. Even though stamp seals were still produced in the third and second millennia, cylinder seals predominated. In the first millennium, stamp seals made a strong comeback and eventually replaced cylinder seals entirely.

  5. Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir - Wikipedia

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    The complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir (UET V 81) [1] is a clay tablet that was sent to the ancient city-state Ur, written c. 1750 BCE.The tablet, which measures 11.6 centimetres (4.6 in) high and 5 centimetres (2.0 in) wide, documents a transaction in which Ea-nāṣir, [a] a trader, allegedly sold sub-standard copper to a customer named Nanni.

  6. Vindolanda tablets - Wikipedia

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    The wooden tablets found at Vindolanda were the first known surviving examples of the use of ink letters in the Roman period. The use of ink tablets was documented in contemporary records; Herodian in the 3rd century describes "a writing-tablet of the kind that were made from lime-wood, cut into thin sheets and folded face-to-face by being bent".

  7. Ancient Roman pottery - Wikipedia

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    A stamp was usually applied to the amphora at a partially dry stage and it often indicated the name of the figlina (workshop) and/or the name of the owner of the workshop. Painted stamps, tituli picti, were executed when the amphora was completed and provided indications regarding the weight of the container and the content.

  8. Roman lead pipe inscription - Wikipedia

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    A stamp which has the text carved in high-relief and in right reading is pressed into the slightly moist sand or clay of the mould, thus producing a reverse image of the text in bas-relief. After the molten lead is poured out in the mould, the inscription appears raised in high-relief on the surface of the lead pipe.

  9. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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    A small mark applied to the underside, the back, of articles to give information such as the identity of maker. Various techniques to apply the stamp exist. Ball clay A secondary clay. Ball clays invariably also contain various non-clay minerals, and sometimes organic matter. They commonly exhibit high plasticity and high dry strength.( Ball mill

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