The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
precursors in Mesopotamia, it now seems most probable that Mesopotamia had no idea of a sabbath.^34 They did not have weekends, ...
temple for the goddess Annunitum (a form of Ishtar) and Ilaba in Babylon and to the capture of Sharlak/g, king of the Guti. See ...
Cohen, M. ( 1993 ) The Cultic Calendars of the Ancient Near East. Bethesda: CDL. Englund, R. ( 1988 ) “Administrative Timekeepin ...
CHAPTER SIXTEEN SEALS AND SEALINGS IN THE SUMERIAN WORLD Holly Pittman W e are all familiar with stamps that make marks, eit ...
both close by and distant, as well as the character and meaning of imagery in different communities. Seals and their impressions ...
variety of messages, sometimes nested, that the imagery of the seal could carry. What follows is a selective survey of seals and ...
militarized during the Akkadian period, lapis lazuli became extremely rare. Surely this is not because the material had lost its ...
iron oxide was in eastern Anatolia. Its dark color and shiny surface is consistent with the subdued aesthetic of the Ur III cour ...
SEAL IMAGERY AND FUNCTION: CHANGES THROUGH TIME The first cylinders: Uruk and Jemdet Nasr/Proto-Elamite periods During the Middl ...
of seal was invented before the first signs of writing because they are impressed on hollow clay balls often containing tokens t ...
the paramount ruler of the Late Uruk period, the so-called “priest-king” who in every instance wears a distinctive rounded headb ...
only a very small number of tablets inscribed with the proto-cuneiform script carried seal impressions, suggesting that the imag ...
because it consists of pictorial variants of the cuneiform sign groups designating cities. At the sites of Jemdet Nasr and Uqair ...
While the exact meaning of this grouping is unclear, scholars have used these seals as a material expression of an early trading ...
including animal files, usually domestic animals, but also wild beasts who engaged in combat. Scenes of animal predation are doc ...
Usually they fight against the attacking feline, but they can also struggle with the quadrupeds. The composition of the contest ...
at Ur, had three seals associated with her person. The one inscribed with her name shows in a two register scene the banquet abo ...
and goddesses, recognizable by their headdress of bull horns. Among them is a front- facing fertility goddess (Figure 16. 17 ) a ...
equally important in the character of these changes is the increased role that the Semitic-speaking people of northern Mesopotam ...
gence of a vibrant mythology that has not yet been discovered in cuneiform texts, and may have been been transmitted solely thro ...
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