Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection
Author: Yale Babylonian Collection
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 498
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Yale Babylonian Collection
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 498
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Briggs Buchanan
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9780608078823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Beatrice Teissier
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 0520348915
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Agnete W. Lassen
Publisher: Peabody Museum (YUP)
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781933789378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A stunning guide to the treasures housed within the Yale Babylonian Collection, presenting new perspectives on the society and culture of the ancient Near East The Yale Babylonian Collection houses virtually every genre, type, and period of ancient Mesopotamian writing, ranging from about 3000 B.C.E. to the early Christian Era. Among its treasures are tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh and other narratives, the world's oldest recipes, a large corpus of magic spells and mathematical texts, stunning miniature art carved on seals, and poetry by the first named author in world history, the princess Enheduanna. This unique volume, the companion book to an exhibition at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History, celebrates the Yale Babylonian Collection and its formal affiliation with the museum. Included are essays by world-renowned experts on the exhibition themes, photographs and illustrations, and a catalog of artifacts in the collection that present the ancient Near East in the light of present-day discussion of lived experiences, focusing on family life and love, education and scholarship, identity, crime and transgression, demons, and sickness. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (04/06/2019--06/30/2020) Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Author: Agnete W. Lassen
Publisher: Yale Babylonian Collection
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781734342000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the patriarchal world of ancient Mesopotamia, women were often represented in their relation to men - as mothers, daughters, or wives - giving the impression that a woman's place was in the home. But, as we explore in this volume, they were also authors and scholars, astute business-women, sources of expressions of eroticism, priestesses with access to major gods and goddesses, and regents who exercised power on behalf of kingdoms, states, and empires.
Author: Eva Møller
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9788772890807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Identification and classification of a private Danish collection of seals, which were acquired in Baghdad over a number of years more than 30 years ago. The collection covers a period extending from the late Ubaid to the Sasanian dynasty, c. 4000 BC -- 642 AD, and includes twenty-five cylinder seals from the Late Uruk period to Early Dynastic I, nine Early Dynastic II-III seals, eleven Akkadian and Post-Akkadian, six Neo-Sumerian, eight Old Babylonian, three seals of the second half of the second millennium BC, thirteen Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian stamp and cylinder seals, three seals of the second half of the first millennium BC, three bullae and a stamp seal of Seleucid date, thirty Sasanian stamp seals, and finally four fragmentary seals of uncertain date. The seals are listed in chronological order by period. The middle chronology has been used for dating.
Author: Joost Kist
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9004496327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Not only their function in Ancient Near Eastern daily life makes stamp and cylinder seals an important subject of study, but also their outstanding aesthetic beauty. The examples of stamp and cylinder seals catalogued and described in the present volume are part of the collection of Ancient Near Eastern glyptic art acquired by the Kist family during the last century. The collection consists of hundreds of seals ranging from the fourth millennium Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods up to the Achaemenid period of the first millennium B.C. The majority of the artifacts are published here for the first time, making the volume into a unique and essential resource for Ancient Near Eastern scholars and art historians.
Author: Ann Gunter
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2005-02-01
Total Pages: 654
ISBN-13: 9047406583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As archaeologist, philologist, and historian, German scholar Ernst Herzfeld (1879–1948) significantly shaped the study of the prehistoric to Islamic Near East. His life and work are reassessed and situated within decisive developments in research and politics in the 20th century, providing new insights into the historiography of the Near East.
Author: Laura Battini
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2022-05-26
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 180327123X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume, consisting of two parts, gathers papers in honour of Pierre Amiet. Part 1 analyses the body as a biological entity as well as a social, sexual and cultural identity (persona). Part 2 includes articles closely related to the specialisms of Amiet: glyptics, state formation, and the organisation of craftsmen and statuary.
Author: Marta Ameri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-05-03
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 1108173519
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and ideological systems in ancient societies throughout the Old World. Previously, scholarship has focused on description and documentation, chronology and dynastic histories, administrative function, iconography, and style. More recent studies have emphasized context, production and use, and increasingly, identity, gender, and the social lives of seals, their users, and the artisans who produced them. Using several methodological and theoretical perspectives, this volume presents up-to-date research on seals that is comparative in scope and focus. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach advances our understanding of the significance of an important class of material culture of the ancient world. The volume will serve as an essential resource for scholars, students, and others interested in glyptic studies, seal production and use, and sealing practices in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Ancient South Asia and the Aegean during the 4th-2nd Millennia BCE.