button seal

noun

A small circular seal (imprinting device) of a type used in Ancient Egypt and the Near East.

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Meanings

nounbutton seal (plural button seals)

plural button seals

  1. A small circular seal (imprinting device) of a type used in Ancient Egypt and the Near East.

    Crete now takes its proper place as a half-way house between Egypt and the AEgean. The seals of the period show on them primitive pictographs that are certainly derived from the pictographs of the so-called button seals of Egypt.

    1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 50
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