Stamp Seals as Jewelry: Identifying Body Ornaments through Seal Impressions$dNoa Ranzer
Stamp seals had various functions in the Iron Age southern Levant. In addition to their use as stamping devices, they were also worn on the body like other pieces of jewelry and thus formed but one part of a larger design comprising different objects (e.g., metal wires, pins, fibulae). In their arch...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2024, Volume: 87, Issue: 1, Pages: 20-25 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Seal
/ Stamp
/ Ornament
/ Levant (Süd)
/ History 1000 BC-300 BC
/ Mounting (technology) (Arts and crafts)
/ Mounting (technology) (Technics)
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament KBL Near East and North Africa |
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| Summary: | Stamp seals had various functions in the Iron Age southern Levant. In addition to their use as stamping devices, they were also worn on the body like other pieces of jewelry and thus formed but one part of a larger design comprising different objects (e.g., metal wires, pins, fibulae). In their archaeological contexts, however, most seals are detached from their original mountings. Thus, we are left wondering how such a seal was displayed when worn on the body. As part of a more extensive ongoing study on the function of stamp seals during the Iron Age, this article examines how seal impressions can serve as an important dataset to begin identifying specific mounting techniques and, thus, the possible ways different seals were used as jewelry. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-5404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/727584 |