cylinder seal
noun
- Archaeology a small barrel-shaped stone object with a hole down the centre and bearing an incised design or cuneiform inscription, originally for rolling on clay when soft to indicate ownership or authenticate a document, used chiefly in Mesopotamia from the late 4th to the 1st millennium BC【考古】筒形石印（刻有图案的筒状物, 原先滚在软黏土上, 以示石刻的所有人, 或认证石刻铭文, 主要用于公元前4000年至公元前1000年的美索不达米亚）。