The cylinder-seal was employed in Assyria from the earliest periods of her history, Fig. 72.
There is apparently only one isolated occurrence of a camel on a cylinder-seal, and that belongs to the Persian period.
No. 85-4-8, 1; it is shaped like a cylinder-seal, and is inscribed with an incantation for Shamash-Killni.
a small barrel-shaped stone object engraved with a design, scene, or inscription which was impressed onto clay when the seal was rolled over tablet
People used cylinder seals to 'seal' ancient documents for about 3,000 years.