In ancient Near East seals held a considerable part in the everyday life of the various peoples who inhabited the area. Cutters were much limited by the shapes of the seals when it came to engraving their designs. After the use of circular or square seals, which had started out during the Neolithic era, the invention of the cylinder seal transformed the conception of the image, as it could be rolled endlessly over clay to leave a continuous design. Several modes of space organisation were then elaborated. With the miniaturisation of scenes, scale problems were also treated in a different way and according to various criteria. When it comes to analyzing precious architectural representations, modern scholars thus face interpretation difficul...
The IIIrd millennium B.C. in the ancient Near East saw the rise of a rich production of objects deco...
Within the large collections of sealings recovered at Balat, Laure Pantalacci seeks to discover chro...
The study of the ornementation covering byzantine architectural sculptures shows that geometry is us...
National audienceDans la vie quotidienne des habitants des divers pays du Proche-Orient antique, les...
Archaeological space defined as the distribution of material traces of human activities is continuou...
In the 3rd millennium B. C. in Mesopotamia, geometric style cylinder-seals flourished during two mai...
PULIM, LimogesL’étude historique d’une cité antique nécessite que l’on cerne ses limites territorial...
Les représentations architecturales que nous donne à voir la glyptique du Proche-Orient ancien const...
The near-eastern neolithization is a long period that begins around 12,000 cal. BC and ends around 7...
Between Dark and Clashing Rocks : difficulties in drawing a historical map of the ancient Bosporus. ...
L’assyriologie recouvre les disciplines qui portent sur l’étude du Proche-Orient antique, et plus sp...
International audienceUne part importante du travail archéologique consiste à reconnaître et détermi...
À la fin du IVe et au début du IIIe millénaire avant notre ère, les sociétés iraniennes connaissent ...
International audienceStucco was virtually unknown in the Pre-Classical Near East where, from the Ne...
Les représentations architecturales que nous donne à voir la glyptique du Proche-Orient ancien const...
The IIIrd millennium B.C. in the ancient Near East saw the rise of a rich production of objects deco...
Within the large collections of sealings recovered at Balat, Laure Pantalacci seeks to discover chro...
The study of the ornementation covering byzantine architectural sculptures shows that geometry is us...
National audienceDans la vie quotidienne des habitants des divers pays du Proche-Orient antique, les...
Archaeological space defined as the distribution of material traces of human activities is continuou...
In the 3rd millennium B. C. in Mesopotamia, geometric style cylinder-seals flourished during two mai...
PULIM, LimogesL’étude historique d’une cité antique nécessite que l’on cerne ses limites territorial...
Les représentations architecturales que nous donne à voir la glyptique du Proche-Orient ancien const...
The near-eastern neolithization is a long period that begins around 12,000 cal. BC and ends around 7...
Between Dark and Clashing Rocks : difficulties in drawing a historical map of the ancient Bosporus. ...
L’assyriologie recouvre les disciplines qui portent sur l’étude du Proche-Orient antique, et plus sp...
International audienceUne part importante du travail archéologique consiste à reconnaître et détermi...
À la fin du IVe et au début du IIIe millénaire avant notre ère, les sociétés iraniennes connaissent ...
International audienceStucco was virtually unknown in the Pre-Classical Near East where, from the Ne...
Les représentations architecturales que nous donne à voir la glyptique du Proche-Orient ancien const...
The IIIrd millennium B.C. in the ancient Near East saw the rise of a rich production of objects deco...
Within the large collections of sealings recovered at Balat, Laure Pantalacci seeks to discover chro...
The study of the ornementation covering byzantine architectural sculptures shows that geometry is us...