bulla
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The store sold everyday goods and featured a large brick oven that was used to make its famous bulla cakes, flavorful flat pastries made with flour, ginger and molasses.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2021
In ancient times, a seal stamp, or bulla, was used to authenticate documents or items.
From Fox News ● Apr. 1, 2019
The stylohyal is loosely attached along its sides to the tympanic bulla and finally attached, at the posterior end, to the bulla at a point slightly ventral and posterior to the auditory meatus.
From Genera and Subgenera of Chipmunks by John A. White
The papal bulla was a disk of metal stamped on both sides.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
In the skull the orbit is surrounded by bone, and the tympanic has a bulla and an ossified external meatus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
In 2017, Iraq received 450 cuneiform tablets and 3,000 ancient bullae, or seals, from the Museum and Green family firm Hobby Lobby paid a $3 million fine.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
They included cuneiform tablets, ancient cylinder seals and clay seal impressions known as bullae.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
They included 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets, slivers of papyrus, cylinder seals and clay bullae — all relics from ancient Mesopotamia that showcased some of the earliest forms of written communication.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2020
In 1986 archaeologists revealed that several lumps of figured clay called bullae, bought from Arab dealers in 1975, had once been used to mark documents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Skulls: Nasals and rostrum shorter and more nearly flat; tympanic bullae markedly smaller; alveolar length of upper molar series shorter; molariform teeth markedly smaller and weaker.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
It is named from the Latin plural bullas, meaning the round bosses which the Romans put on their bridles.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
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