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Stamp Seals of the Ancient Yemen introduces a corpus of material which dates from the third millennium B.C. to the first millennium A.D. The seals were collected by travelers to the area at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. Recent archaeol…

Within the rich and very varied range of ancient Near Eastern seals, the seals associated with the kingdom of Urartu form a distinct, immediately recognizable corpus. Thanks, moreover, to a number of modern excavations, including those at Ayanis and Bastam, it is also now possib…

As a symbol of Ahuramazda the winged disk represents a powerful marker of Achaemenid Persian identity from c. 520 BCE onwards, i.e., from almost the very beginning of Darius' reign down to at least 330 BCE. At the same time we have observed that many more examples of this imager…

The glyptic of the Old Assyrian Colony period in Anatolia offers the first view of an elaborate native Anatolian religious imagery. The largest portion of the Cappadocian glyptic occurs as cylinder seal impressions on clay envelopes of documents concerned with the business and t…

This thesis examines 50 Aegean Bronze Age seal stones, sealings, and signet rings, that depict narrative scenes and are supported by specific settings. My selected corpus consists of three thematic groups: conflict scenes, cult scenes, and boat and town scenes. The seals and rin…