Sentence examples for clay cylinders from inspiring English sources

Sifting sediment through flotation turned up lint near mysterious clay cylinders.

Mounted on clay cylinders embedded in the dirt, they stand in erect position along the approach to the burial place.

The Manuscripts Division has approximately 1,350 baked and unbaked clay tablets, opened and unopened tablet cases, clay cylinders, nail-shaped cones, pyramid-shaped tags, and other items.

That discovery, Dr. Master recalled, demonstrated that the clay cylinders were actually loom weights, and "this observation has led to a revolution in the studies of the weaving industry across the eastern Mediterranean in the early Iron Age".

Nabonidus, Cyrus's deposed predecessor as king of Babylon, commissioned foundation texts on clay cylinders – such as the Cylinder of Nabonidus, also in the British Museum – that follows the same basic formula.

LONDON — I wanted to test a theory about Iran, so the other evening I made my way to the British Museum, strolled past glass cases full of the sarcophagi and mummies of ancient Egypt, and found myself in a room whose centerpiece is a baked clay cylinder smaller than an American football.

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When Sargon succeeded to the Assyrian throne, Marduk-apal-iddina II (Merodach-Baladan of the Old Testament), a dissident chieftain of the Chaldean tribes in the marshes of southern Babylonia, committed the description of his victory over the invading Assyrian armies (720 bc) to writing on a clay cylinder, which he deposited in the city of Uruk (biblical Erech; modern Tall al-Warkāʾ).

The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Persia's Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great.

Make arms by rolling two pieces of clay into cylinders.

Over the years, the elder Ott amassed a large array of Babylonian clay tablets, cylinder seals, stamp seals, and scarabs.