As early as 1861, he was working evenings sorting and cleaning the mass of friable fragments of clay cylinders and tablets in the Museum's storage rooms.
I winked at Clare and picked up the other clay cylinder.
The "museum labels" (the oldest such known to historians) for the items found in the museum were clay cylinders with descriptive text in three different languages.
The measurement was based on the shrinking of clay when heated above red heat, and the shrinking was evaluated by comparing heated and unheated clay cylinders.
They are linked to the invention of the latter cuneiform writing on clay cylinders.
Prior to his improvements, guns were cast in a single piece by pouring molten iron or bronze around a clay cylinder.
The temperatures reached were around 800 C. These clay cylinders worked like piles giving greater shear strength to the creep surface.
The altar at Niuheliang was made of stone platforms, supported by painted, clay cylinders.
The inscribed clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, was discovered in an 1879 excavation at Babylon (modern Iraq).
Approximately 250 objects bearing Cypro-Minoan inscriptions have been found, including clay tablets, votive stands, clay cylinders and clay balls.