scholarly journals A Hittite Seal and Seal Impressions from Tatarlı Höyük

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
K. Serdar GİRGİNER ◽  
Meltem DOĞAN-ALPARSLAN
Keyword(s):  
Seal Impressions

Pictures and people. Seals, figurines and Peloponnesian imagery

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 185-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Weiberg
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Initial Description ◽  
Seal Impressions ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Coastal Settlement

The point of departure for this paper is the publication of two Early Helladic sealing fragments from the coastal settlement of Asine on the north-east Peloponnese in Greece. After an initial description and discussion they are set in the context of sealing custom established on the Greek mainland around 2500 BCE. In the first part of the paper focus is on the apparent qualitative differences between the available seals and the contemporary seal impressions, as well as between different sealing assemblages on northeastern Peloponnese. This geographical emphasis is carried into the second part of the paper which is a review and contextualisation of the representational art of the Aegean Early Bronze Age in general, and northeastern Peloponnese in particular. Seal motifs and figurines are the main media for Early Helladic representational art preserved until today, yet in many ways very dissimilar. These opposites are explored in order to begin to build a better understanding of Peloponnesian representational art, the choices of motifs, and their roles in the lives of the Early Helladic people.

FEATURES OF THE FORMATION AND DISPLAY OF TEMPORARY FEATURES IN THE IMPRESSIONS OF SEALS AND STAMPS CLICHÉS

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 318-329
Author(s):  
N. Zubova ◽  
H. Loshmanova ◽  
V. Somov
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Forensic Identification ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Temporal Features ◽  
Technology Changes ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Seal Impressions ◽  
Legal Grounds ◽  
Made In

Seals and stamps, as well as their impressions, have been the objects of forensic identification for many decades, and although there are legal grounds for refusing to use seals by economic entities at present, documents are still certified with seal impressions. Recently, a great number of documents have been received for examination to address the issues as to the time period for document production. The forensic task on establishing the time period for document production is relevant. Only in the 80-s of the last century research regarding the possibilities of determining the time period for document production by impressions made by seals (stamps) clichés, produced with the help of vulcanizing rubber using movable types or typewriter composition was initiated. Over the past forty years, cliché manufacturing processes and the materials used in this process have significantly changed. At present, clichés produced with the use of new technologies are widespread, namely: laser engraving of rubber made by using photopolymer technology or flash technology. Changes in the technology of making clichés, production of new materials have led to the emergence of features that are formed in the cliché while its using. These features are displayed in the impressions of seals and stamps clichés. The article outlines the characteristic features of seals (stamps )clichés, considers the conditions for the occurrence of features in the process of their use, shows the evolution of their change, outlines the time periods for the existence of features, defines the criteria for attributing features to identically significant temporal features of the cliché. The mentioned temporal features appearing in the cliché of seals and stamps in general (taking into account handles) and in impressions over a certain period of time, allows to determine the time period of applying the impression on a document. In this case, free samples of impressions that have been made over the time period of examination and meet certain requirements should be provided for comparative analysis. For the categorical conclusion that the impression of a seal (stamp) was made in a specific period of time, it is needed to establish a set of persistent individual features that appeared in the studied impression and its copy over a certain period of time.

Archaeology and Sigillography in Northern Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-238
Author(s):  
Michael Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Northern Europe ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Seal Impressions

Medieval seals, traditionally considered from the perspective of their documentary function, may also be studied as archaeological artefacts. Pilgrim badges were seal-shaped, and seal matrices and seal impressions can be found on church bells, in altars, and in burial sites. The context in which matrices are excavated provides valuable information on the practices of sealing and on the values attached to seals. This article also reveals a hitherto undescribed late medieval practice whereby papal and Scandinavian royal correspondents exchanged seal matrices.

Artemis Karnava: Seals, Sealings and Seal Impressions from Akrotiri in Thera.

Gnomon ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 538-542
Author(s):  
Erik Hallager
Keyword(s):  
Seal Impressions

The cretulae and the Linear A accounting system

1960 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 200-210
Author(s):  
Maurice Pope
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Near East ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Coherent System ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Seal Impressions ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Proper Analysis

Cretulae is the name given in this article to the small clay nodules, stamped with one or more seal impressions, that have been found in quantity at most Bronze Age sites in the Near East. The Minoan examples are generally smaller than those found at other sites, and the great majority of them have a hole through which string once passed. That is to say, they are lumps of clay squeezed round string and then sealed. At most of the sites in Crete where they are known, they have been found in conjunction with inscribed clay tablets and clay disks. At Hagia Triada they are unique in being for the most part countermarked with a sign of the Linear A script. The interrelationships of the countermarks and sealings have not previously been recorded, and it is the primary purpose of this article to publish them. The catalogue will be found in Appendix A. Proper analysis of it should shed light on Minoan methods of administration, and perhaps too on the purpose of the Linear A tablets. That the tablets, or some of them, belong to a coherent system of administration, and are not all mere inventory lists of what happened to be coming into or going out of store at a particular moment, seems guaranteed by the fact, to which I shall revert later, that totals in the same numerical proportion are found at widely distant sites.

On the Seal Impressions on Some Old Babylonian Tablets

1957 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Briggs Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Old Babylonian ◽  
Seal Impressions

The Cylinder Seal Impressions from Beth Ha'Emeq

Tel Aviv ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 120-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirhiya Beck
Keyword(s):  
Seal Impressions
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