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

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

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Other Authors: Ameri, Marta, 1973-, Costello, Sarah Kielt, 1971-, Jamison, Gregg, Scott, Sarah, 1973-

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Subjects:

Cylinder seals.
Seals (Numismatics)
Public administration > History.

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Call Number: CD5204 .S43 2018

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: small windows, wide views / editors: Ameri, Costello, Jamison, Scott
  • Part I. The Ancient Near East & Cyprus
  • Administrative role of seal imagery in the early Bronze Age: Mesopotamian and Iranian traders on the plateau / Holly Pittman
  • Slave labor: Uruk cylinder seal imagery and early writing / Sarah Jarmer Scott
  • The first female bureaucrats: gender and glyptic in 4th-3rd millennia Northern Mesopotamia / Andrew McCarthy
  • Rematerializing the early dynastic banquet seal / Sarah Kielt Costello
  • Sealing practices in the Akkadian Period / Yelena Z. Rakic
  • Authenticity, seal recarving, and authority in the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean / Joanna Smith
  • Part II. South Asia and Persian Gulf
  • Indus seals and glyptic studies: an overview / Asko Parpola
  • Letting the pictures speak: an image-based approach to the mythological and narrative imagery of the Harappan world / Marta Ameri
  • Understanding Indus seal carving traditions: a stylistic and metric approach / Gregg M. Jamison
  • Operational sequences and stamp seals: a new approach to identifying groups of seal carvers in the Indus civilization / Adam Green
  • Seals and sealing technology in the Dilmun Culture: the post Harappan life of the Indus Valley sealing tradition / Steffen Laursen
  • Part III. Egypt
  • The evolution of ancient Egyptian seals and sealing systems / Joe Wegner
  • Early dynastic sealing practices as reflection of state formation in Egypt? / Ilona Regulski
  • Sealings and seals from pyramid age Egypt / John Nolan
  • The administrative use of scarabs during the Middle Kingdom / Daphna Ben Tor
  • Middle and New Kingdom sealing practice in Egypt and Nubia: a comparison / Stuart Tyson Smith
  • Part IV. Aegean
  • Introductory remarks, Aegean / Judith Weingarten
  • Aegean Bronze Age sealstones and fingerrings: chronology and functions / John Younger
  • An Aegean seal in Greek hands? Thoughts on the perception of Aegean seals in the Iron Age / Maria Anastasiadou
  • Cryptic glyptic: multivalency in Minoan glyptic imagery / Erin Mcgowan
  • The magic and the mundane: the function of talismanic class stones in Minoan Crete / Angela Murock Hussein.