Seals and Sealing in the Ancient world : Case Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia
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Ameri, Marta, 1973-
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Costello, Sarah Kielt, 1971- , [HerausgeberIn] Jamison, Gregg , [HerausgeberIn] Scott, Sarah, 1973- , [HerausgeberIn] |
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Cambridge ; : New York, NY :.
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xxix, 468 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. |
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Available online |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
