Chalcedony sealing cylinder in display case

Description:

Middle East
H. 3 cm
Milky cream-white stone with engraving. Roll-off impression. Mounted in a box with label: 'Seal cylinder white chalcedony, early dynastic, 3rd millennium BC. Heroes in battle with Löwen. This cylinder was rolled onto cranes, clay bombs and writings. Today's paper wallpaper production works on the same principle of the cylindrical printing cylinder. Donated in 1965 on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of Flammersheim u. Steinmann Köln-Zollstock, Hönnigerweg 106. Älteste deutsche und kölner Tapetenfabrik seit 1790'.
Important private collection Rhineland - Traces of age, partly chipped, mounted under glass