Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, ca. 1415–1050 BCE / / Serdar Yalcin.
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.
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| Superior document: | Culture and History of the Ancient Near East ; 129 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture and History of the Ancient Near East ;
129. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (327 pages) |
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| Summary: | 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. Typically carved in stone, the cylinder seal is perhaps the most distinctive art form to emerge in ancient Mesopotamia. It spread across the Near East from ca. 3300 BCE onwards, and remained in use for millennia. What was the role of this intricate object in the making of a person's social identity? As the first comprehensive study dedicated to this question, Selves Engraved on Stone explores the ways in which different but often intersecting aspects of identity, such as religion, gender, community and profession, were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of seals from Mesopotamia and Syria. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004524569 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Serdar Yalcin. |