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03127cam a2200229 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781107194588 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
737/.6 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Ameri, Marta |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Seals and Sealing in the Ancient world : |
| Remainder of title |
Case Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia / |
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edited by Marta Ameri, Colby College, Sarah Kielt Costello, University of Houston - Clear Lake, Gregg Jamison, University of Wisconsin - Waukesha, Sarah Jarmer Scott, Wagner College. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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Cambridge: |
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Cambridge university press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxix, 468 pages : |
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illustrations, maps ; |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-450) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Cylinder seals. |
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Seals (Numismatics) |
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Public administration |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ameri, Marta, |
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Costello, Sarah Kielt, |
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Jamison, Gregg |
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Scott, Sarah, |
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Book |
