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Scarabs, Scaraboids, Seals and Seal Impressions from Medinet Habu
by Emily Teeter and T.G. Wilfong
Medinet Habu in western Thebes (modern Luxor) is among the most important sites in Egypt. It is dominated by the great mortuary temples of King Ramesses III (ca. 1182 b.c.), and Kings Aye and Horemheb (ca. 13241293 B.C). It served as the seat of the regional government in the Late New Kingdom (ca. 1140 b.c.), and an important Coptic Christian community grew up within its great fortification walls. For nearly 1,500 years Medinet Habu played a ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$95.00, Our Price US$49.98
Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum
by Venetia Porter, with Robert Hoyland, Alexander Morton and Shailendra Bandhare
This catalogue is in two parts. The first focuses on the 638 Arabic, Persian and Indian seals in the British Museum covering material from the 8th to the 20th century. The Introduction covers seal practice in different periods and levels of society; the role of the seal and the alama or motto, the use of figural representation on the seals, seal engravers, the forgery of seals and the importance of the stones used are described. The ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$90.00
First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East
by Dominique Collon.
The Ancient Near East has a fascinating and unique source of pictorial information in the form of miniature reliefs produced by the impressions of cylinder seals. This is the most comprehensive introductory survey of cylinder seals yet published.
The small cylinders, generally of stone and engraved with a design, were made from about 3300 to 300 BC and were rolled out on lumps of clay used for sealing goods and writing tablets, ...
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Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals VI: Pre-Achaemenid and Achaemenid Periods
by Parvine H. Merrillees with contributions by Margaret Sax, C.B.F. Walker and Dominique Collon
The cylinder seals of the second half of the 1st millennium BC fall into the period dominated by the Achaemenid empire. They are of particular significance in glyptic art and practices, as they bring to a close the 3,000-year history of the Near Eastern cylinder seal. The British Museum's collection of seals of this period totals 92 pieces and is one of the largest outside Iran. The earliest seal was acquired in 1772 from Sir William Hamilton's ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$180.00, Our Price US$144.00
Sasanian Seals and Sealings in the A. Saeedi Collection
edited by R. Gyselen
Most of the Sasanian seals published in this catalogue have been in the Saeedi family collection for several decades. The collection, however, has continued to grow since this publication was conceived, with more seals being added to it as the opportunity arose. The 131 seals included here are only a small part of the collection, and the sample applies to the clay sealings covered in this work. Where more than one sealing bears the same ...
Hardback. Price US$116.00
7000 Years of Seals
by Dominique Collon
Seals can be marks of prestige and protection for their owners, and the subjects they depict provide information for art historians and genealogists alike. Analysis of the stone used can also provide clues to trade routes in operation at particular periods. This book brings together the contributions of twelve distinguished speakers at an international seminar held at the British Museum in 1992; the result is a comprehensive study of seals and ...
Hardback. Price US$45.00
The Hieroglyphic Archive at Petras, Siteias
by Metaxia Tsipopoulos and Erik Hallager
This is the final and full publication of an archive with Cretan hieroglyphs found in Petras, Siteia. The archive consists of all kinds of written documents, and it has a unique collection of sealings. 200p, illus. (The Danish Institute at Athens ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$35.95
Image and Authority: Seals in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century England
by T.A. Heslop
This book is the first on the history of English seals by the foremost scholar on the subject. It will be of interest not only to students of art history & archaeology, but on account of the legal, political, social and cultural insights it provides, ...
Hardback. Price US$153.00
Die spätmykenischen Siegel aus Weichem Stein
by Aurelia Dickers
An examination of 490 late Bronze Age soft-stone and pressed glassed seals of mainland Greece, focusing on `Mainland Popular Group' seals and ornamentally decorated flourite seals which are both characteristic of Mycenaean Greece. Dickers discusses and ...
Hardback. Price US$76.50
Biblical Period Personal Seals in the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection
by Robert Deutsch and André Lemaire
A catalogue of more than two hundred Hebrew, Ammonite, Moabite, Edomite, Phoenician and Aramaic personal seals from the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, the most important private collection of Jewish and Biblical-related antiquities. Examples come primarily ...
Hardback. Price US$160.00
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