Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World
Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World

Author: Marta Ameri

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-05-03

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 1108173519

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Studies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and ideological systems in ancient societies throughout the Old World. Previously, scholarship has focused on description and documentation, chronology and dynastic histories, administrative function, iconography, and style. More recent studies have emphasized context, production and use, and increasingly, identity, gender, and the social lives of seals, their users, and the artisans who produced them. Using several methodological and theoretical perspectives, this volume presents up-to-date research on seals that is comparative in scope and focus. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach advances our understanding of the significance of an important class of material culture of the ancient world. The volume will serve as an essential resource for scholars, students, and others interested in glyptic studies, seal production and use, and sealing practices in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Ancient South Asia and the Aegean during the 4th-2nd Millennia BCE.

First Impressions
First Impressions

Author: Dominique Collon

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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In this survey, the author looks at the development and use of cylinder seals over 3000 years. She discusses the information that they provide on religion, design and aspects of daily life in the Near East for this period.

Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection
Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection

Author: Beatrice Teissier

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1984-01-01

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780520049277

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Cylindrically-shaped sals first appeared int he second half of the fourth millennium B.C, gradually replacing the more traditional stamp seals. Cylinder seals are interesting not only for the past functional uses and for what they reveal about ancient Near Eastern culture and society--but the representations rendered by the seals are a worthy art form. This book discusses over 700 seals, including a large number of Syrian seals. --Publisher description.

Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Kist Collection
Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Kist Collection

Author: Joost Kist

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9004496327

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Not only their function in Ancient Near Eastern daily life makes stamp and cylinder seals an important subject of study, but also their outstanding aesthetic beauty. The examples of stamp and cylinder seals catalogued and described in the present volume are part of the collection of Ancient Near Eastern glyptic art acquired by the Kist family during the last century. The collection consists of hundreds of seals ranging from the fourth millennium Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods up to the Achaemenid period of the first millennium B.C. The majority of the artifacts are published here for the first time, making the volume into a unique and essential resource for Ancient Near Eastern scholars and art historians.