Engraved on Stone : : Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals and Seal Inscriptions in the Old Babylonian Period / / Rony Feingold.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• VerfasserIn: Feingold, Rony,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Plates and Tables --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. Raw Materials and their Origins --; Chapter 3. Workshops and the Manufacture of Seals --; Chapter 4. Recuts --; Chapter 5. Typology of Inscriptions --; Chapter 6. Trade --; Chapter 7. The Significance of Cylinder Seals --; Chapter 8. Analyzing the Data --; Appendices --; Plates and Tables --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463226398; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463226398
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rony Feingold.

Cylinder seals were important instruments in the Ancient Near East, and were used in Mesopotamia from the beginning of the third millennium BCE to the fifth century BCE. This volume presents an analysis of 1000 cylinder seals (including 70 that are not yet published) from the Old Babylonian period, including the Isin and Larsa dynasties, and uses this analysis as well as data from written texts of the period to answer questions relating to the seal cutters and the production of the seals.