The Routledge Companion to Seals and Seal Studies in Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

New Approaches to Mediterranean and West Asian Visual Culture
Redaktion: Scott, Sarah J.; Topçuoglu, Oya

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume highlights current trends in interdisciplinary scholarship on seals and sealing practices in the ancient world, touching on fields of art history, archaeology, Assyriology, and anthropology.

It comprises 33 chapters written by prominent international scholars that explore the production and use of seals and a diverse range of sealing practices in the ancient world. Contributions cover a vast geographical area that includes Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, the Indus Valley, Iran, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Spain, from the Neolithic through the present. The volume is organized into seven parts: Image Agency, Objecthood, and Object Biography; Materiality; Text and Image; Identity; Gender; Senses, Experience, and the Body; and Practice and Technology. This organizational structure allows readers to compare case studies around similar methodologies, rather than focus on specific geographies or periods. The volume provides fresh perspectives on seals and sealing practices as a means to study cultural practice, social interaction, and cognition from a wide range of cultures and geographies.

The Routledge Companion to Seals and Seal Studies in Antiquity offers an invaluable resource for researchers and students in various fields, including West Asian, Mediterranean, and South Asian studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 824
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040448885
• Artikelnr.: 75704983

Autorenporträt

Sarah J. Scott is Professor of Art History and Director of the Arts Administration Program at Wagner College. Her scholarship focuses on both small objects such as cylinder seals (Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World: Case Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia, Cambridge University Press, 2018) and monumental architecture and narrative ("Imagining Architectural Space: Methodological Approaches for Assyrian Palaces," in How Do We Want the Past to Be? On Methods and Instruments of Visualizing the Ancient Reality, Gorgias Press, 2016). Oya Topçuölu is Associate Professor of Instruction in the Middle East and North African Languages Program at Northwestern University. She is an archaeologist, who specializes in the art, archaeology, and history of ancient Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Her research addresses issues of social identity and cultural exchange and the effects of political change and ideology on seals, seal imagery, and sealing practices in the second millennium bce. Additionally, she studies the looting and illegal trafficking of antiquities from Iraq and Syria, the political uses of the ancient past, and its role in the formation of national identities in the modern Middle East.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction (Sarah J. Scott and Oya Topçuölu)
1. Collecting seals at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Yelena Rakic)
2. From one hand to another: turbulent lives of cylinder seals from ancient
Western Asia (Serdar Yalç¿n)
3. Image and owner: personal names and generic imagery in early West Asian
seals (Agnete Wisti Lassen)
4. ArtWorks in miniature? Mesopotamia's cylinder seals as instruments,
aesthetic objects, and collaborative creations (Karen Sonik and David
Kertai)
5. Affect and composition: reading presentation scenes on cylinder seals
(Elizabeth Knott)
6. Depiction of rituals on seals in the 1st dynasty of Egypt - for which
purpose and in which context? (Vera Müller)
7. Engaging with seals as objects: re-integrating image and material
support (Anastasia Tchaplyghine)
8. Precious and negligible: visibility, concealment, and revelation in tiny
Aegean seals (Emily S. K. Anderson)
9. Iconography and material support: a case study of glyptic art of bronze
age southeastern Iran (Holly Pittman)
10. Seals, seal impressions and changing social worlds in neolithic western
Asia (Sarah Kielt Costello)
11. Writing and reuse: recarved and retrograde inscriptions on cylinder
seals (Gina Konstantopoulos)
12. Patterns of seal ownership in Ur III Umma (Rudi Mayr)
13. Heaven was a drink of wine: the protective and rejuvenative functions
of tomb U-j's wine Sealings (Morgan Moroney)
14. Flip the script: early Egyptian seals and the bi-directionality of
hieroglyphs (Andrew McCarthy)
15. The east in the west: Egyptianizing culture as a Phoenician identity
marker in the province of Huelva, Spain (M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro)
16. What's in a name? Personal identity and the use of Egyptian-style seals
in Syro-Mesopotamia and the Levant (Vanessa Boschloos)
17. The sealing practices of the scribes during the Late Bronze Age in Nuzi
(Iraq) (Véronique Pataï)
18. Sealed tablets from Kassite Babylonia: the evidence from the
institutional archives (Elena Devecchi)
19. Where are the proto-elamites? Exclusion of humans from the
proto-elamite classic glyptic style (Clélia Paladre)
20. Women's seals in Iran and Central Asia: prestige items or
administrative tools (or both)? (Marta Ameri)
21. Seals and the city. Female sealing practice in Old Babylonian Sippar
(Katrien De Graef)
22. Women's seals and women as sealers in Hittite Central Anatolia (Mark
Weeden)
23. State Impressions: Mimesis, Alterity and Masculinity in the Royal Seals
of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Omar N'Shea)
24. Sealed in remembrance: embodied glyptic in Israel's Worship (Christine
Palmer)
25. In decent exposure: female nudes in Near Eastern glyptic (Diana Stein)
26. A sense of violence: social memory, the body, and sealing (Sarah J.
Scott)
27. Beyond impressions: cylinder seals of the Neo-Assyrian period as
experiential object (Kiersten Neumann)
28. Reciprocal Materialities: Seals, Impressions, and the Sense of Kingship
in Achaemenid Persia (Neville McFerrin)
29. Cutting Seals and Standing by. The Administrative Role of the burgul
during the Old Babylonian Period (ca. 2004-1595 BCE) (Anne Goddeeris)
30. Ethnoarchaeological approaches to Indus seal production: modeling
variation in carving styles and manufacturing techniques (Gregg Jamison)
31. Marginal notes: on sealing practices outside Sumer, and their
connection to writing's origins (Jennifer Ross)
32. The Malia sealstone workshop: an iconographic study (John G. Younger)
33. With Strings Attached. Sealing Practices in Hittite Anatolia (Willemijn
Waal)