How Akkadian cylinder seals served as ancient signatures | Art, Explained
"It does seem to indicate the balancing of forces of nature."
Curator Yelena Rakic on Akkadian cylinder seals.
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Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world.
Photography by Paul Lachenauer
Modern impression of the seal courtesy of Shawn Osborne
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Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
Thank you for sharing history thru pictures. It is a rare insight to our past.
I'm a little late to the party, but thank you for putting in the time and effort to make things like this. It's appreciated.
What is the medium used to take the modern impression?
Wow fascinating
I'd love it if you would fix the closed captions. The ones at the Met website are perfect but these are nonsense, like: "Iconography" at 1:34 comes out as "I cannot repeat."
Wow,! I see you've fixed the closed captions--I thank you; my students thank you.
Clay tables are so cool😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
the met only has 500 of them. the world has many more ;)
Basically microchip lithography of yesteryear
*Mesopotamia (Beyond Two Rivers Lands): The cradle of all grandeur* *I don't know why the global media does shed light on the Iraq ancient civilizations (Sumer the first civilization and the greatest one, Akkad the first Empire and the first Secularism system, Assyria the empire of the modern Army and Babylonian Empire the pearl of the ancient world*
Sounds like you're just guessing
Its funny how people still think they were made by humans..
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HAHAHAHA YEAH that would be impossible!!!! ....wait
The vocal fry of the presenter is soooo annoying