Add to ORKGSealing as a practice in ancient Egypt has been attested by thousands of exemplars recovered from archaeological sites. Seals have been found in cemeteries, settlements, and military forts, which suggests they had a multifaceted use as administrative tools and religious amulets. Preserved mud sealings are equally informative, since complete sealings hold the negative impression of the seal inscription and the surface they were adhered to, such as fabric, wood, or papyrus. The present study analyzes a corpus of 423 seal impressions from a Middle Kingdom settlement site on Elephantine Island excavated by the Realities of Life project from the German Archaeological Institute. I use GIS software for spatial analysis, identify sealing types with...
A short encyclopedia entry about seals and signet rings, and their use, from antiquity to modernity
In the ancient world, stamp seals served as a tool for identification, a symbol of socioeconomic sta...
Ancient seals and scarabs from the Egyptian Museum of Turin. The scarabs were, for their ancient p...
grantor: University of TorontoIn 1991 a group of over fifty seal impressions with geometri...
Seals and seal impressions known at present from the Ancient Near East amount to some tens of thousa...
This dissertation presents an analysis of seal use in the Murasu Archive, excavated by the Universit...
Typical approaches to seals in ancient Near Eastern studies often ignore the role of the individual ...
Theoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 94-102.Introduction -- Literature -- Origin of seals -- Types...
The study presents ca 150 unpublished sealings from the 3rd millennium BC urban centre of Tell Beyda...
Since 2017, an Egyptian-Austrian joint mission explores the early town of Kom Ombo in Southern Egypt...
More than two hundred sealings have been found since 2010 at Selib 2, a small Meroitic settlement in...
During the 1960s, fifteen stamp seals and two cylinder seals were discovered at a mass burial site i...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2010. Major: Ancient and Medieval Art and Archaeo...
In March 2020 we undertook a first study of the OK and FIP seal impressions found so far by the Join...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?].Variant views of the same scene on...
A short encyclopedia entry about seals and signet rings, and their use, from antiquity to modernity
In the ancient world, stamp seals served as a tool for identification, a symbol of socioeconomic sta...
Ancient seals and scarabs from the Egyptian Museum of Turin. The scarabs were, for their ancient p...
grantor: University of TorontoIn 1991 a group of over fifty seal impressions with geometri...
Seals and seal impressions known at present from the Ancient Near East amount to some tens of thousa...
This dissertation presents an analysis of seal use in the Murasu Archive, excavated by the Universit...
Typical approaches to seals in ancient Near Eastern studies often ignore the role of the individual ...
Theoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 94-102.Introduction -- Literature -- Origin of seals -- Types...
The study presents ca 150 unpublished sealings from the 3rd millennium BC urban centre of Tell Beyda...
Since 2017, an Egyptian-Austrian joint mission explores the early town of Kom Ombo in Southern Egypt...
More than two hundred sealings have been found since 2010 at Selib 2, a small Meroitic settlement in...
During the 1960s, fifteen stamp seals and two cylinder seals were discovered at a mass burial site i...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2010. Major: Ancient and Medieval Art and Archaeo...
In March 2020 we undertook a first study of the OK and FIP seal impressions found so far by the Join...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?].Variant views of the same scene on...
A short encyclopedia entry about seals and signet rings, and their use, from antiquity to modernity
In the ancient world, stamp seals served as a tool for identification, a symbol of socioeconomic sta...
Ancient seals and scarabs from the Egyptian Museum of Turin. The scarabs were, for their ancient p...