Seals And Sealing In The Ancient Near East

Author : Marta Ameri,Sarah Kielt Costello,Gregg Jamison,Sarah Jarmer Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108173513

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Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World by Marta Ameri,Sarah Kielt Costello,Gregg Jamison,Sarah Jarmer Scott Pdf

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.

Author : Joan Goodnick Westenholz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1419321620

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Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East by Joan Goodnick Westenholz Pdf

Author : Marta Ameri,Sarah Kielt Costello,Gregg Jamison,Sarah Jarmer Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 110719458X

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Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World by Marta Ameri,Sarah Kielt Costello,Gregg Jamison,Sarah Jarmer Scott Pdf

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.

Author : Joan Goodnick Westenholz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3805327595

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Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East. by Joan Goodnick Westenholz Pdf

Author : Alberto Ravinell Whitney Green
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575060699

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The Storm-god in the Ancient Near East by Alberto Ravinell Whitney Green Pdf

Green traces these motifs through the Mesopotamian, Anatolian, Syrian, and Levantine regions; he argues that, in the end, Yahweh of the Bible can be identified as a storm-god, though certain unique characteristics came to be associated with him: he was the creator of all that is created and the self-existing god who needs no other."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Dominique Collon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015066781421

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First Impressions by Dominique Collon Pdf

In this survey, the author looks at the development and use of cylinder seals over 3000 years. She discusses the information that they provide on religion, design and aspects of daily life in the Near East for this period.

Author : Joan Goodnick Westenholz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Middle East
ISBN : 9657027004

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Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East by Joan Goodnick Westenholz Pdf

Author : Paul Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015064131355

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The Iconography of Cylinder Seals by Paul Taylor Pdf

The essays in the volume study various aspects of the iconography of cylinder seals from the Akkadian period to the Neo-Assyrian period, from Mesopotamia to Hittite Anatolia. The authors deal mostly with concrete cases, including themes such as warfare, the sacred tree, fish and the god Ninurta. An introduction discusses the problems involved in interpreting iconography with few or no texts, and the volume is opened by a memorial of Henri Frankfort, second Director of the Institute, by his successor J. B. Trapp. The illustrations include a wide range of seal impressions. The book will be of interest to archaeologists and art historians of the ancient Near East, and to comparative iconologists. It was first published in 2006, and quickly sold out (ISBN-10: 0854811354). A limited number of volumes have been reprinted in 2018 for interested specialists (ISBN-13: 978-0-85481-135-9).

Author : Dominik Bonatz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110691931

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Middle Assyrian Seal Motifs from Tell Fekheriye (Syria) by Dominik Bonatz Pdf

Despite ongoing interest in Middle Assyrian glyptic art, the publications of Middle Assyrian seals and seal impressions from excavated sites in the Near East are very rare. The book is the first to offer a comprehensive study on the seal corpus from an archaeological site historically located in the western territory of the Middle Assyrian state. The seal impressions and few original seals, which were found during the excavations in Tell Fekheriye (Syria), substantially add to our understanding of the iconographic repertory and the use of seals in the Middle Assyrian period. The corpus dates to the reigns of the Assyrian kings Shalmaneser I and Tukulti-Ninurta I in the 13th century B.C. It documents practices of governance and administration in the growing Middle Assyrian Empire, points to activities of high-ranking Assyrian officials and unfolds the pictorial reality of political and ideological intensions. While finding detailed information on unpublished materials, their archaeological contexts and interpretations, the reader is also invited to follow a discourse on art, state and society for which the Middle Assyrian seal motifs from Tell Fekheriye provide an excellent case study.

Author : Serdar Yalcin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004524569

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Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, ca. 1415–1050 BCE by Serdar Yalcin Pdf

Selves Engraved on Stone explores the ways in which multiple aspects of identity were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of personal seals from ancient Mesopotamia and Syria in the latter half of the 2nd millennium BCE.

Author : Dominique Collon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UCSD:31822005178389

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Near Eastern Seals by Dominique Collon Pdf

Author : Beatrice Teissier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520049276

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Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection by Beatrice Teissier Pdf

Cylindrically-shaped sals first appeared int he second half of the fourth millennium B.C, gradually replacing the more traditional stamp seals. Cylinder seals are interesting not only for the past functional uses and for what they reveal about ancient Near Eastern culture and society--but the representations rendered by the seals are a worthy art form. This book discusses over 700 seals, including a large number of Syrian seals. --Publisher description.

Author : Ann C. Gunter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118301258

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A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art by Ann C. Gunter Pdf

Provides a broad view of the history and current state of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East This book covers the aesthetic traditions of Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and the Levant, from Neolithic times to the end of the Achaemenid Persian Empire around 330 BCE. It describes and examines the field from a variety of critical perspectives: across approaches and interpretive frameworks, key explanatory concepts, materials and selected media and formats, and zones of interaction. This important work also addresses both traditional and emerging categories of material, intellectual perspectives, and research priorities. The book covers geography and chronology, context and setting, medium and scale, while acknowledging the diversity of regional and cultural traditions and the uneven survival of evidence. Part One of the book considers the methodologies and approaches that the field has drawn on and refined. Part Two addresses terms and concepts critical to understanding the subjects and formal characteristics of the Near Eastern material record, including the intellectual frameworks within which monuments have been approached and interpreted. Part Three surveys the field’s most distinctive and characteristic genres, with special reference to Mesopotamian art and architecture. Part Four considers involvement with artistic traditions across a broader reach, examining connections with Egypt, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean. And finally, Part Five addresses intersections with the closely allied discipline of archaeology and the institutional stewardship of cultural heritage in the modern Middle East. Told from multiple perspectives, A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art is an enlightening, must-have book for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of ancient Near East art and Near East history as well as those interested in history and art history.

Author : Bruno Jacobs,Robert Rollinger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1747 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119174288

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A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 2 Volume Set by Bruno Jacobs,Robert Rollinger Pdf

A COMPANION TO THE ACHAEMENID PERSIAN EMPIRE A comprehensive review of the political, cultural, social, economic and religious history of the Achaemenid Empirem Often called the first world empire, the Achaemenid Empire is rooted in older Near Eastern traditions. A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire offers a perspective in which the history of the empire is embedded in the preceding and subsequent epochs. In this way, the traditions that shaped the Achaemenid Empire become as visible as the powerful impact it had on further historical development. But the work does not only break new ground in this respect, but also in the fact that, in addition to written testimonies of all kinds, it also considers material tradition as an equal factor in historical reconstruction. This comprehensive two-volume set features contributions by internationally-recognized experts that offer balanced coverage of the whole of the empire from Anatolia and Egypt across western Asia to northern India and Central Asia. Comprehensive in scope, the Companion provides readers with a panoramic view of the diversity, richness, and complexity of the Achaemenid Empire, dealing with all the many aspects of history, event history, administration, economy, society, communication, art, science and religion, illustrating the multifaceted nature of the first true empire. A unique historical account presented in its multiregional dimensions, this important resource deals with many aspects of history, administration, economy, society, communication, art, science and religion it deals with topics that have only recently attracted interest such as court life, leisure activities, gender roles, and more examines a variety of available sources to consider those predecessors who influenced Achaemenid structure, ideology, and self-expression contains the study of Nachleben and the history of perception up to the present day offers a spectrum of opinions in disputed fields of research, such as the interpretation of the imagery of Achaemenid art, or questions of religion includes extensive bibliographies in each chapter for use as starting points for further research devotes special interest to the east of the empire, which is often neglected in comparison to the western territories Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World series, A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire is an indispensable work for students, instructors, and scholars of Persian and ancient world history, particularly the First Persian Empire.

Author : Kiersten Neumann,Allison Thomason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000436426

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The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East by Kiersten Neumann,Allison Thomason Pdf

This Handbook is a state-of-the-field volume containing diverse approaches to sensory experience, bringing to life in an innovative, remarkably vivid, and visceral way the lives of past humans through contributions that cover the chronological and geographical expanse of the ancient Near East. It comprises thirty-two chapters written by leading international contributors that look at the ways in which humans, through their senses, experienced their lives and the world around them in the ancient Near East, with coverage of Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Persia, from the Neolithic through the Roman period. It is organised into six parts related to sensory contexts: Practice, production, and taskscape; Dress and the body; Ritualised practice and ceremonial spaces; Death and burial; Science, medicine, and aesthetics; and Languages and semantic fields. In addition to exploring what makes each sensory context unique, this organisation facilitates cross-cultural and cross-chronological, as well as cross-sensory and multisensory comparisons and discussions of sensory experiences in the ancient world. In so doing, the volume also enables considerations of senses beyond the five-sense model of Western philosophy (sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell), including proprioception and interoception, and the phenomena of synaesthesia and kinaesthesia. The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East provides scholars and students within the field of ancient Near Eastern studies new perspectives on and conceptions of familiar spaces, places, and practices, as well as material culture and texts. It also allows scholars and students from adjacent fields such as Classics and Biblical Studies to engage with this material, and is a must-read for any scholar or student interested in or already engaged with the field of sensory studies in any period.