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Abstract
This talk investigates possible ways of presenting seals (HDR, RTI and photogrammetry).
Digital Imaging of Artefacts: Developments in Methods and Aims
A structured light approach to imaging ancient Near Eastern cylinder seals: how efficient 3D imaging may facilitate corpus- wide research2018 •
This chapter presents the work of the 12-month project Seals and Their Impressions in the Ancient Near East (SIANE), a collaborative effort of the University of Southampton, Oxford University and the University of Paris (Nanterre). Recognising the need for improved visual documentation of ancient Near Eastern cylinder seals and the potential presented by new technologies, there have been several approaches to 3D-imaging cylinder seals in recent years (e.g. Pitzalis et al. 2008; Reh et al. 2016; Wagensonner forthcoming). SIANE focused on the development of equipment and workflow that can quickly capture the maximum amount of meaningful data from a seal, including 3D data from structured light and an automated production of ‘digital unwrappings’. The project addressed some issues regarding the physical mounting of seals and developed a method of efficient data-capture that allows the imaging of large numbers of cylinder seals for research and presentation purposes. A particular research benefit from 3D image capture of entire seal collections is the potential for exploring computer-aided image recognition, which could contribute to comparative glyptic studies as well as helping to address the question of whether any original seals can be linked to known ancient impressions on tablets or sealings possibly separated across modern collections.
The following paper concerns eleven cylinder seals (1–11) that have primarily been classified according to their engraved inscriptions. The textual evidence offers the opportunity to investigate these cylinder seals and their owners as well. Moreover, the collected sources reveal a new perspective on the reign of Adad-nērārī III (810–783 BCE) and of his son Shalmaneser IV (782–773 BCE).
The article discusses an Assyrianized cylinder seal found in 2007 in Gezer and its affinities to other Assyrian or Assyrianized cylinder seals made of hard semi-precious stones from Israel/Palestine and Jordan. By examining the seal in relation to other glyptic items found at Gezer, an effort is made to shed light on the role of Gezer during the period of the Assyrian conquest.
The purpose of this paper is to present a diverse group of previously unpublished objects from the ancient Near East, several of which bear texts. Among the three cuneiform tablets, the first is a Middle Babylonian administrative text from the reign of Nazi-maruttash, the second provides a receipt belonging to the archive of Iddin-Marduk (reign of Nabonidus or Cyrus II) and the third contains a list counting smiths from the Neo-or Late Babylonian period. In addition, there are two cylinder seals: one depicts a presentation scene (Ur III period) and the other two ostrich-like birds (Neo-Assyrian or Neo-Babylonian period). Three stamp seals and two scaraboids, formerly held in the famous collection of Baron Plato von Ustinow, are also recorded and discussed. Finally, in a separate but related contribution, an Old Babylonian letter is presented by Zsombor Földi and the current author.
Pearls from the Past
Representation of Military Attack on Neo-Assyrian Glyptic: a Seal from Chatal Höyük in the Amuq2019 •
Cuneiform Digital Library Preprint
Cuneiform Digital Library Preprints Title: Looking both forward and back: imaging cuneiform2019 •
Subartu XXXVI Mille et une empreintes Un Alsacien en Orient
Much more than just a Decorative Element: The Guilloche as Symbol of Fertility2016 •
Fs Krystyna Łyczkowska
Neo-Babylonian Seal from the Potocki Collection at the National Museum in Warsaw2009 •
Hethitologie Portal Mainz. Materialen 7
Sammlung hieroglyphischer Siegel. Bd. 1: Vorarbeiten (2. rev. und erg. Auflage)2009 •
ArchEph. pp.29-66.
Davaras and Soles. A New Oriental Cylinder Seal from Mochlos1995 •
Edith Porada on the Occasion of her 100th Birthday
Anchoring Intuition in Evidence: A Continuing Discussion of Cylinder Seals from Southeastern Iran2014 •
2008 •
Studia Eblaitica 1
A Hare in the Land of Lions. Analysis and Interpretation of the Leporid Symbol in the Old Syrian Glyptic2015 •
Studia Orientalia Electronica 2014, vol. 2, pp. 37-68
Creating an online database for the documentation of seals, sealings and seal impressions in the Ancient Near East1992 •
Women at the Dawn of History (ed. A. Lassen and K. Wagensonner)
From Sammu-ramat to Semiramis and Beyond: Metamorphoses of an Assyrian Queen2020 •
British Institute of Persian Studies
Glyptic Evidence for a Connection between Iran, Syro-Palestine and Egypt in the Fourth and Third Millennia1987 •
Klaus Wagensonner