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Glyptics or glyptic art covers the field of small carved stones, including cylinder seals and inscriptions, especially in an archaeological context. Though they were keenly collected in antiquity, most carved gems originally functioned as seals , often mounted in a ring; intaglio designs register most clearly when viewed by the recipient of a ...
The Riverton Site is an archaeological site located immediately west of the Wabash River and northeast of Palestine, Illinois.The site, which dates from the Late Archaic period (3000-1000 BCE), is the type site of the Riverton culture.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. link (October 2001) Pope-Hennessy, Una, Early Chinese Jades, reprint edn. READ BOOKS, 2008, ISBN 1-4437-7158-9, ISBN 978-1-4437-7158-0 Google books; Thoresen, Lisbet. "On Gemstones: Gemological and Analytical Studies of Ancient Intaglios and Cameos." In Ancient Glyptic Art- Gem Engraving and ...
Landmarks of the World's Art, The Ancient World, by Giovanni Garbini, (McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, Toronto), General Eds, Bernard S. Myers, New York, Trewin Copplestone, London, c 1966. "Discussion, or pictures of about 25 cylinder seals"; also lists the "Scaraboid seal", an impression seal (needs to be a mirror/reverse to be an ...
Glyptic art: Rakic, Yelena 2003. The Contest Scene in Akkadian Glyptic: A Study of its imagery and function within the Akkadian empire. PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Collon, D. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals, vol 2 Akkadian and Ur III. Boehmer, Rainer Michael 1965.
It is believed that all these objects were modeled after a well-known prototype, perhaps a wall painting, [10] as it had already been suggested for other Early Mycenaean works of glyptic art; [11] this view is partly shared by the discoverers, who otherwise see an intentional parallel between the winning hero in the sealstone and the person who ...
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Holly Pittman is a Near Eastern art historian and archaeologist, and an expert in Near Eastern glyptic art.She is the Bok Family Professor in the Humanities and a Professor in the History of Art Department of the University of Pennsylvania and serves as a curator in the Near East Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.