Men, Women, Eunuchs, Etc.: Visualities of Gendered Identities in Kassite Babylonian Seals (ca. 1470-1155 B.C.)

Scholars have extensively investigated ancient Mesopotamian cylinder seals in terms of their iconographic and stylistic qualities. This article concentrates on the question of whether and how gender, as an important component of personal identity, found expression in the material, visual, and textua...

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Main Author: Yalçin, Serdar (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2016
In: Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2016, Volume: 376, Pages: 121-150
IxTheo Classification:BC Ancient Orient; religion
NBE Anthropology
TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East
Further subjects:B GAY people
B Cylinder seals
B Babylonia
B Kassite
B Kassites
B MESOPOTAMIAN antiquities
B Personality
B Gender
B Identity
B Eunuchs
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