Gold cylinder mounting
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The gold mount would have held a cylinder seal, an object used to make marks in clay or wax, first invented in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium B.C. Imported cylinder seals begin to appear on Cyprus in the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 1900–1600 B.C.), but the Cypriots did not start making their own cylinder seals until the Late Bronze Age.
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