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  2. King Ahaz's seal - Wikipedia

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    King Ahaz's seal is a bulla (impressed piece of clay) originating from the 8th century BCE. The place of discovery of this seal is unknown, and it is currently part of Shlomo Moussaieff 's private collection.

  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. Bulla - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. Ancient Near Eastern seals and sealing practices - Wikipedia

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    Clay bulla impressed with the seal of Barnamtarra, wife of Lugalanda, ensi (ruler) of Lagash. Early Dynastic III, c. 2400 BC. Found in Telloh (ancient Girsu). Two main types of seals were used in the Ancient Near East, the stamp seal and the cylinder seal.

  6. Early seal gets the fish: Secret hunting habits of Weddell ...

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    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.

  7. King Hezekiah bulla - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Akera soluta - Wikipedia

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    Bulla tenuis A. Adams, 1850 junior subjective synonym Bulla tumida A. Adams, 1850 superseded combination Akera soluta is a species of sea snail (or sea slug ), a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Akeridae , a family that is related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 .

  9. Akera bullata - Wikipedia

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    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 .