Bermerkungen zer Datierung und Interpretation kassitischer Siegelthemen unter Berücksichtigung interaktiver Begegnungen mit der Dilmun Glyptik

This paper discusses the Kassite relations with Dilmun under iconografical aspects. Since impressions of first group Kassite seals had been found on tablets from Qal´at al-Bahrain City IIIa, dating from the first half of the 15th century b.C., new chronological standards have to be placed. Also the investigation of seal legends mentioning personalities can help us to date seal images. Further on, the cultural influence between Babylonia and Dilmun was ambivalent, so antithetical compositions from Dilmun Glyptic could well have served as a pattern for the second group Kassite iconography. More over, there are defined attributes which can be considered as code forms of the god Enki in Dilmunite as well as Kassite glypticEsta contribución trata por un lado el temprano origen de los sellos casitas del Primer Grupo en el siglo XV a.C., con motivo de los documentos descubiertos en la fase "City IIIa" de Qal'at al-Bahrain, así como el análisis cronológico de las inscripciones de los propietarios de los sellos; y por otro ciertas composiciones esquemáticas y atributos de la glíptica de Dilmun, que pudieran haber servido como modelo para la iconografía casita del Segundo Grupo y para formas codificadas del dios Enk