Two main types of seals were used in the Ancient Near East, the stamp seal and the cylinder seal. Stamp seals first appeared in 'administrative' contexts...
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seals. Asia portal Ancient Near Eastern seals and sealing practices Seal (device) Impression seal Stamp seal LMLK seal Mudbrick stamp Scaraboid seal British...
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copper-alloy seal matrix of medieval date (14th century AD) Ancient Near Eastern seals and sealing practices Bulla (seal) Indus script LMLK seals from Lachish...
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Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. Seal hunting is currently practiced in nine countries: Canada, Denmark (in self-governing...
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Collection of British Seals. Whyteleaf. ISBN 978-0-9570102-0-8. New, Elizabeth (2010). Seals and Sealing Practices. Archives and the User. Vol. 11. London:...
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Indus Valley Civilisation (redirect from Ancient Indus Valley weights and measures)
groups of signs on seals. Seals have been found at Mohenjo-daro depicting a figure standing on its head, and another, on the Pashupati seal, sitting cross-legged...
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Kielt; Jamison, Gregg (2018). Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World: Case Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia. Cambridge University...
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Akkadian Empire (redirect from Arrival of the Semites to Babylonia and Assyria)
Annunitum and of the god Aba in Babylon and when he defeated Szarlak, king of Gutium" The final contemporary source are seals and their sealing dates. These...
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"Indus Seals and Glyptic Studies: An Overview", Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World: Case Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia...
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The ancient Near East was the site of several key developments in the relationship between the animal world and the human species. These include the first...
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organization and social interaction entered a new phase. This is reflected in the emergence of collective storage facilities, sealing practices indicating...
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Egypt–Mesopotamia relations (category Articles containing Ancient Egyptian-language text)
Mesopotamia the practice of marking the sealing of jars with engraved cylinder seals for informational purposes. Recessed niches and false doors Egyptian...
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prestige; Pompey and Julius Caesar were among later collectors. The technique has an ancient tradition in the Near East, and cylinder seals, whose design...
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Hermeticism (section Hermetic practices)
phrase "hermetically sealed" originates from alchemical practices and refers to an airtight sealing method used in laboratories. This term became a metaphor...
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Hattusa (category Buildings and structures in Çorum Province)
91, pp. 137–51, 1996 van den Hout, Theo, "Seals and Sealing Practices in Hatti-Land: Remarks À Propos the Seal Impressions from the 'Westbau' in Ḫattuša"...
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Holly Pittman (category University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
stamp and cylinder seals in the study of the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. The use of stamp seals preceded writing in Near Eastern society...
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"Grain Accounting Practices in Archaic Mesopotamia", in: J. Høyrup and Peter Damerow, eds., Changing Views on Ancient Near Eastern Mathematics, BBVO 19;...
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Aleuts (category Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East)
Sasignan (in Attuan dialect)/Sasxnan (in Eastern dialect)/Sasxinas (in Western dialect) or Near Islanders: in the Near Islands (Attu, Agattu, Semichi). Kasakam...
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Mesopotamian city of Uruk, and by certain types of construction, seal design, and sealing practices. Habuba Kabira is a case in point: the Syrian site in the...
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Kültepe (category Ancient Assyrian cities)
Néhémie (2021). "An Overview of Sealing Practices at Kültepe" (PDF). Cultural Exchange and Current Research in Kültepe and its Surroundings Kültepe. Turnhout:...
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Linear A (section Sealed documents)
Crete at Malia and Kato Symi. Seals and clay sealings served the same role of inventory control and ownership as in the ancient Near East and Egypt. Large...
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India (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
and Narrative Imagery of the Harappan World", in Ameri, Marta; Costello, Sarah Kielt; Jamison, Gregg; Scott, Sarah Jarmer (eds.), Seals and Sealing in...
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Gupta Empire (category States and territories established in the 240s)
Kāśī–Kannauj region, Uttar Pradesh. Sealings and coins attributed to Śrīgupta have been found mostly in the Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjāb region." Khandalavala...
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Coober Pedy (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
The town has become a popular stopover point and tourist destination, especially since 1987, when the sealing of the Stuart Highway was completed.[citation...
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Proto-city (category Ancient Near East)
city-states such as Uruk, such as the use of seals to denote ownership or control. At Tell Brak, a stamp sealing with a motif of a lion suggests the authority...
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Mummy (category Ancient Egyptian funerary practices)
addition to the mummies of ancient Egypt, deliberate mummification was a feature of several ancient cultures in areas of America and Asia with very dry climates...
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impressions of stamp seals, cylinder seals and seal rings. Many of them have marks of strings that secured bags or boxes and/or attached the sealings to containers...
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Lothal (section Economy and urban culture)
mats, twisted cloth, and cords. These seals were only verified at Lothal. Quantitative descriptions along with seals of rulers and owners were stamped...
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Mitanni (category Articles containing Ancient Egyptian-language text)
Language, Material, Format, and Sealing Practices". In Marilina Betrò; Michael Friedrich; Cécile Michel (eds.). The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions...
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Uruk period (category Archaeological cultures of the Near East)
applied the seal or for the institution which they represented. These cylinder seals would remain a characteristic element of Near Eastern civilization...
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