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 including the Isin and Larsa dynasties and uses this analysis as well as data from written texts of the period to answer questions relating to the seal cutters and the production of the seals

Engraved on Stone: Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals and Seal Inscriptions in the Old Babylonian Period (Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East) by Rony Feingold (2014) Hardcover

Engraved on Stone: Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals and Seal Inscriptions in the Old Babylonian Period (Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East) by Rony Feingold (2014) Hardcover PDF

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