Explore: Seal Style Writing

Seal script or sigillary script (simplified Chinese: 篆书; traditional Chinese: 篆書; pinyin: Zhuànshū; lit. 'decorative engraving script') is a style of writing

seals to a much earlier time, to the Late Neolithic period (7600-6000 BC) in Syria, hundreds of years before the invention of writing. Cylinder seals

The small seal script is an archaic script style of written Chinese. It developed within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–256 BC)

term large seal script traditionally refers to written Chinese dating from before the Qin dynasty—now used either narrowly to the writing of the Western

In the Sinosphere, seals (stamps) can be applied on objects to establish personal identification. They are commonly applied on items such as personal

than seal script found on Zhou dynasty bronze inscriptions, seal script is the oldest style that continues to be widely practised. Today, seal script

Writing implements used to make physical inscriptions include fingers, styluses, ink brushes, pencils, pens, and many styles of lithography; writing surfaces

A bulla (Medieval Latin for "a round seal", from Classical Latin bulla, "bubble, blob"; plural bullae) is an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin),

The seal of the president of the United States is used to mark correspondence from the president of the United States to the U.S. Congress, and is also

of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing – as