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Published 1966
Catalogue of ancient Near Eastern seals in the Ashmolean Museum.

: xxiv, 242 pages, 67 pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm : Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Published 1966
Catalogue of ancient near Eastern seals in the Ashmolean Museum.

: xxiv, 242 pages, 67 pages of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Published 1984
Catalogue of ancient Near Eastern seals in the Ashmolean Museum /

: "Published in co-operation with the visitors of the Ashmolean by the delegates of the Press" --Title page verso. : volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm : Bibliography : volume 2, pages [37]-40. : 0198134037 (volume 2)

Published 2008
Catalogue of the Western Asiatic seals in the British Museum. impressions of stamp seals on cuneiform tablets, clay bullae, and jar handles /

: This volume publishes drawings of the impressions of stamp seals preserved on Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform tablets, and other clay objects in the collections of The British Museum. The majority of these seals bears precise dates, ranging from the 9th to the 2nd centuries B.C.; represens the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenian and Hellenistic periods; and are set out in chronological order so that the changes in seal design can be clearly seen. Among the images from the Hellenistic period are representations of zodiacal signs. The volume also includes details of seal impressions on the handles of pottery jars from Palestine. Full bibliographical references to previous publications of the cuneiform texts are given, and the volume concludes with concordances and indices, including a pictorial index of all the seal images arranged typologically.
: From the collection deposited at the Dept. of Ancient Near East Antiquities of the British Museum. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references (p. [25]-30) and indexes. : 9789047423393 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Seals and Sealing in the Ancient world : Case Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia /

: xxix, 468 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-450) and index. : 9781107194588

Published 2023
Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, ca. 1415-1050 BCE /

: Typically carved in stone, the cylinder seal is perhaps the most distinctive art form to emerge in ancient Mesopotamia. It spread across the Near East from ca. 3300 BCE onwards, and remained in use for millennia. What was the role of this intricate object in the making of a person's social identity? As the first comprehensive study dedicated to this question, Selves Engraved on Stone explores the ways in which different but often intersecting aspects of identity, such as religion, gender, community and profession, were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of seals from Mesopotamia and Syria.
: 1 online resource : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004524569
9789004524576

Published 1939
Cylinder seals : a documentary essay on the art and religion of the ancient Near East /

: xivii, 328 pages : illustrations, plates, folded tables ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliographical references.

Ancient art in miniature : Near Eastern seals from the collection of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky /

: 80 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm : 0870994891

Published 2022
Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, ca. 1415-1050 BCE /

: Selves Engraved on Stone explores the ways in which multiple aspects of identity were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of personal seals from ancient Mesopotamia and Syria in the latter half of the 2nd millennium BCE.
Typically carved in stone, the cylinder seal is perhaps the most distinctive art form to emerge in ancient Mesopotamia. It spread across the Near East from ca. 3300 BCE onwards, and remained in use for millennia. What was the role of this intricate object in the making of a person's social identity? As the first comprehensive study dedicated to this question, Selves Engraved on Stone explores the ways in which different but often intersecting aspects of identity, such as religion, gender, community and profession, were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of seals from Mesopotamia and Syria.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004524569
9789004524576