TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yalçin,Serdar
TI  - Selves engraved on stone: seals and identity in the ancient Near East, ca. 1415-1050 BCE 
T2  - Culture and history of the ancient Near East,
SN  - 9789004524576
AV  - CD5344 .Y337 2022
U1  - 737/.6 23/eng/20220622
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Seals (Numismatics)
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Coins, Ancient
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Signs and symbols
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Typically carved in stone, the cylinder seal is perhaps the most distinctive art form to emerge in ancient Mesopotamia. It spread across the Near East from ca. 3300 BCE onwards, and remained in use for millennia. What was the role of this intricate object in the making of a person's social identity? As the first comprehensive study dedicated to this question, Selves Engraved on Stone explores the ways in which different but often intersecting aspects of identity, such as religion, gender, community and profession, were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of seals from Mesopotamia and Syria
ER  -