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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (301 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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