Author: Gibson, McGuire ; & Biggs, Robert D. ; editors :
Title: Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East
Description: Malibu [California], Undena Publications, 1977. 2nd Printing. orig. cloth. 28x21cm, 158,(2)pages. Weighs 950 grams. Series: Bibliotheca Mesopotamia, 6.. ISBN: 0890030235. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Includes one microfiche in rear pocket. Contents: Of professional seal cutters and nonprofessionally made seals / Edith Porada -- Aspects of the development of early cylinder seals / Hans J. Nissen -- New tricks for old seals: a progress report / William L. Rathje -- Sargonic royal seal: a consideration of sealing in Mesopotamia / Richard L. Zettler -- Seal practice in the Ur III period / Piotr Steinkeller -- Seals lost and found /William W. Hallo -- Presentation seals of the Ur III/Isin-Larsa period / Judith A. Franke -- Sealing practices in house and land sale documents at Eshnunna in the Isin-Larsa period / Robert M. Whiting -- Legal aspects of sealing in ancient Mesopotamia / J. Renger -- Seal use in the Old Assyrian period / Mogens Trolle Larsen -- Typology of Mesopotamian seal inscriptions / I.J. Gelb -- Use of seals in the Persepolis fortification tablets / Richard T. Hallock -- Aspects of sealing and glyptic in Egypt before the New Kingdom / Bruce Williams -- Private name seals of the Middle Kingdom / Janet H. Johnson.

Keywords: 0890030235 Numismatics, Assyriology, Ancient Near East, Seals, Glyptics, Intaglios, Numismatic, Archaeology, History