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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2018Description: xxix, 468 pages : illustrations, mapsISBN:
  • 9781107194588 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 737/.6
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.
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Book Book Dept. of Archaeology Processing Center Dept. of Archaeology 737/.6 AME.S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available AGY4848

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-450) and index.

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.

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