A cylinder seal is an engraved cylinder-shaped stone used to stamp impressions in clay. Cylinder seals have complex designs because of the ability to roll over the clay, allowing a more complex design to be carved into the stone. Cylinder seals with complex designs were first used in Mesopotamia. The seals were made using precious stones and were used to show ownership or as an identification mark. Cylinder seals would have been used to close jars, baskets, and doors or would have been rolled out onto a clay tablet to record some kind of transaction. This cylinder seal is from the Old Babylonian period. The seal is made from a dark colored hard stone called hematite, which is a common characteristic for making seals during the Old Babylonian
This jar have yei’ii design and is at 8 ¾ tall and 8” wide at the handle. This is one of the Faye Tso’s pottery that have won the Second Prize in 1993 during the Museum of Northern Arizona Navajo Artiests Exhibition. This pieces and with other large pieces of pottery like the vase with yei’iis and human figure and the water jar with horned toads. These clay sculpture were made by Myra Tso, Faye’s daughter and it was to honor her grandfather, who sang and prayed for her. The design of horned toads on the pottery are very special because the toads was use in a ritual for praying. All ritual and ceremonies are essential parts of the Navajo way as well as sand painting art that was inspired by those that created ceremony. The dust from gold, diamonds,
Through further research, I have learned that this vase “depicts the heroes Achilles and Ajax playing a board game” (Two-Handled Jar with Achilles and Ajax).
These were found while excavating a cluster of rooms which is how they dated them, by dating the rooms you can assume these cylinders came from about the same time. The function of these “petrified turds” is what intrigued Kamp the most. She was so interested she set out an experiment to test what the function of it was. Kamp’s first idea was that some possible functions might be “weights, tools for removing kernels from dried corn, tokens for relay races, plaster smoothers, abraders for working wood or sandstone, toys, phallic symbols, or tools for thinning ceramic vessels”. To test her hypothesis she designed an experiment in which she would replicate some cylinders and then use those cylinders on four different tasks she believed could be what they were used for. After six hours of working with the cylinders, she looked under a microscope to compare her cylinders to the ones found at the village. She found that the cylinders likely function was to work ceramics before they were to be fired. The cultural meaning of these tools were just that, they were used as tools to help create the wonderful pieces of pottery that were found at the
This plate was made around 1636. The culture from which it was found was the Wanapum tribe. The wanapum tribe was an Indian tribe that lived in Oregon. The Wanapum tribe used to make all of their tools they made utensils, plates, cups, weapons, and other tools. This particular plate was made for eating on a wedding it is a dark green color with a dark blue bottom. These colors were thought to have been good luck for the married couple. The plate was have to been thought to have been broken around 1640. The tribe was attacked by Americans and nothing was left after but a few plates. The plate was used for self defense against an
Description/Source: This artifact shows a ceramic bowl that was used by the Mayans in everyday life for pottery making and used in everyday art.
This carving was made by the Olmec. this was produced with latex. The Olmec utilized the elastic from trees to make these heads as an image of their love to a considerable lot of their divine beings.
This Goblet Inscribed with the names King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti, is made of travertine, (Egyptian alabaster) height 5 ½ in diameter 4 1/8 in. (MET). When I look at this piece I feel it may commemorate a wedding, anniversary, or King Akhenaten’s deep love and affections for his principal Queen Nefertiti. This Piece encompasses the changes King Amenhotep is making in the Egyptian culture, as the previous artworks and vessels have a much different look and style. King Akhenaten has as of yet changed his name as the cup shows the name Amenhotep IV and his principal Queen Nefertiti. This places the goblet at about 5 years into King Akhenaten’s rule over Egypt. The Goblet is not a typical show of craft for that time in Egypt.
The cylinder is written in Babylonian script stating that Marduk, the city-god of Babylon, had looked for a champion to restore Babylon to it’s old ways, and chose Cyrus, King of Persia, and declared him king of the world. ⁹ Marduk ordered Cyrus to rule over the tribes of Iran justly, and to march on Babylon which was uncontested, and the King of Babylon surrendered and the people of Babylon rejoiced for Cyrus as their king.
This is a clay gourd that taken the shaped like a jug and have cinnamon color appearance and stand at 13 ¾ x 8 inches. This pottery were part of the Tonaltec pieces that have been a high recognition for a long time for the traveler and historians in the seventeenth century. The Tonaltec pottery is generally known in Mexico as “Guadalajara earthenware” which taken after a major city name nearest were it make. The Tonaltec pottery are make distinction between earthenware of water and earthenware of fire based on the differences in function and decoration the artist tried to make. The Tonaltec pottery is make of the burnished or greased clay and was fire once then is bathed in glaze and leave to be fire twice before it finish. The purpose of this
This glazed earthenware was made by Michael Lucero, he was born in 1953. Michael named the artwork Green Cliff Dweller, and he made it in 1984. Now its belong to the Ted and Ruth Nash Collection. The shape looks like a human face, he painted the landscape around the cliff.
In accordance with MRIAs Gold Seal Certification requirements, the Compliance Officer Lee Robinson, conducted a compliance audit and evaluation of Millward Brown, Inc. on May 11, 2016. Representing Millward Brown Inc. was represented by, Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Scott Megginson, Vice President Research Operations, Mr. Dave Scott and Chief Operating Officer, Vice President - Research Design and Management, Ms. Sandra Pinchak.
The Harvester’s Vase is one of the “finest” examples of Minoan pottery along with other notable Minoan works such as the Chieftains Cup and The Boxer Vase Rediscovered in the ruins of the Hagia Triada, an Minoan settlement in 1902 The Harvester’s Vase, is beaufiful and rare artficact of Minoan culture, the artist is unknown but it is belived to have been created around 1500 BCE the height of Minoan civilzation. But this isn’t any old vase, in fact it is not vase at all, according the art historian John Forskyse, it is a stone scupluture made up of steatite or soapstone, (a metamorphic rock made up talc and magnisium) a very common stone for carving during this time.
To continue to push the limit of cavity performance, much of the research has focused on materials science and surface science in the SRF community over the recent years [17, 20, 31]. The goal is to understand the metallurgical state evolution during the cavity fabrication process, with emphases on three aspects – initial crystal orientations, deep drawing, and post processing including chemical and heat treatments. It is desirable to have a model that can computationally predict the final shape and microstructure (e.g., dislocation content and arrangement) of a cavity, based on the initial crystal orientations and processing history. With such modeling, acceptance criteria can be
Ibid., p. 110. This stone was found near Kampung Buluh in Sungai Tersat, Kuala Berang at Hulu Terengganu, which its date is 22 February 1303 or 4 Rajab 702 A.H. 8 See Ahmad Ibrahim, Perlaksanaan undang-undang hudūd di
Etsion and Burstein[12] developed a mathematical model to allow performance prediction of all non-contacting mechanical seals having a regular micro-surface structure in the form of hemispherical pores. Seal performance such as equilibrium face separation, friction torque and leakage across the seal are calculated for a range of seal pressures, pore sizes and pore ratio of the ring surface area. An optimum pore size was found that depends on other variables and corresponds to maximum axial stiffness and minimum friction torque.