Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World (eBook, ePUB)

Case Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia
Redaktion: Ameri, Marta

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108168694
• Artikelnr.: 53399114

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Joan Aruz; 1. Introduction: small windows, wide views Marta Ameri,
Sarah Kielt Costello, Gregg Jamison, Sarah Scott; Part I. The Ancient Near
East and Cyprus: 2. Administrative role of seal imagery in the early Bronze
Age: Mesopotamian and Iranian traders on the Plateau Holly Pittman; 3.
Slave labor: Uruk cylinder seal imagery and early writing Sarah Jarmer
Scott; 4. The first female bureaucrats: gender and glyptic in 4th-3rd
Millennia Northern Mesopotamia Andrew McCarthy; 5. Rematerializing the
early dynastic banquet seal Sarah Kielt Costello; 6. Sealing practices in
the Akkadian period Yelena Z. Rakic; 7. Authenticity, seal recarving, and
authority in the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean Joanna Smith;
Part II. South Asia and Persian Gulf: 8. Indus seals and glyptic studies:
an overview Asko Parpola; 9. Letting the pictures speak: an image-based
approach to the mythological and narrative imagery of the Harappan world
Marta Ameri; 10. Understanding Indus seal carving traditions: a stylistic
and metric approach Gregg Jamison; 11. Operational sequences and stamp
seals: a new approach to identifying groups of seal carvers in the Indus
civilization Adam Green; 12. Seals and sealing technology in the Dilmun
culture: the post Harappan life of the Indus Valley sealing tradition
Steffen Laursen; Part III. Egypt: 13. The evolution of Ancient Egyptian
seals and sealing systems Joe Wegner; 14. Early dynastic sealing practices
as reflection of state formation in Egypt? Ilona Regulski; 15. Sealings and
seals from pyramid Age Egypt John Nolan; 16. The administrative use of
scarabs during the middle kingdom Daphna Ben Tor; 17. Middle and new
kingdom sealing practice in Egypt and Nubia: a comparison Stuart Tyson
Smith; Part IV. Aegean: 18. Introductory remarks, Aegean Judith Weingarten;
19. Aegean Bronze Age sealstones and fingerrings: chronology and functions
John Younger; 20. An Aegean seal in Greek hands? Thoughts on the perception
of Aegean seals in the Iron Age Maria Anastasiadou; 21. Cryptic glyptic:
multivalency in Minoan glyptic imagery Erin Mcgowan; 22. The magic and the
mundane: the function of 'talismanic class' stones in Minoan Crete Angela
Murock Hussein.