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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 thirty-three 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.
Contents
Introduction (Sarah J. Scott and Oya Topçuoğlu)
Part I: Image Agency, Objecthood, and Object Biography
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 Yalçın)
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)
Part II: Materiality
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)
Part III: Text and Image
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)
Part IV: Identity
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)
Part V: Gender
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)
Part VI: Senses, Experience, and the Body
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)
Part VII: Practice and Technology
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)
