Research Catalog

Title

Seals and sealing in the ancient world : case studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia / edited by Marta Ameri, Sarah Kielt Costello, Gregg Jamison, Sarah Jarmer Scott.

Publication

• Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ameri, Marta, 1973-
• Costello, Sarah Kielt, 1971-
• Jamison, Gregg (Gregg M.)
• Scott, Sarah, 1973-

Description

xxix, 468 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

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.

Subjects

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

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

Preface / Joan Aruz -- Introduction: Small windows, wide views / editors: Marta Ameri, Sarah Kielt Costello, Gregg M. Jamison and Sarah Jarmer Scott -- Part I. The Ancient Near East and 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 third-millennium 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 S. Smith -- Part II. South Asia and the Gulf Region. 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 preliminary report on an experimental and microtopographic framework for identifying groups of seal carvers in the Indus civilization / Adam S. Green ; Seals and sealing technology in the Dilmun culture: the post-Harappan life of the Indus Valley sealing tradition / Steffen Terp Laursen -- Part III. Egypt. The evolution of ancient Egyptian seals and sealing systems / Josef Wegner ; Early dynastic sealing practices as a 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 seal stones and finger rings: chronology and functions / John G. 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.

Call Number

JFF 18-1495

ISBN

• 9781107194588
• 110719458X

LCCN

2017007089

OCLC

986957817

Title

Seals and sealing in the ancient world : case studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia / edited by Marta Ameri, Sarah Kielt Costello, Gregg Jamison, Sarah Jarmer Scott.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

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

Added Author

Ameri, Marta, 1973- editor.

Costello, Sarah Kielt, 1971- editor.

Jamison, Gregg (Gregg M.), editor.

Scott, Sarah, 1973- editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 18-1495