Stamp seal
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Urartian
art photos).The stamp seal (also impression seal) is a common seal die, frequently carved from stone, known at least since the 6th millennium BC (Halaf culture[1]) and probably earlier. The dies were used to impress their picture or inscription into soft, prepared clay and sometimes in sealing wax.
The oldest stamp seals were button-shaped objects with primitive ornamental forms chiseled onto them.Byzantine maintained the tradition in their commercial stamps.[4]
In
themes" of the society that produced them, rather than with an ordinary signature.[citation needed
]
Indus stamp-seal
Different from the
Minoan stamp-seals, the Indus stamp-seals probably have a different function from the stamp seals of the Minoan civilization
, as they typically have script characters, with still undeciphered associations.
Gallery
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Stamp seals (bottom row), cylinder seals (top row) -
Signaculum PRIMIT ("first") -
An impression of a cast copper-alloy seal matrix of medieval date (14th century AD)
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See also
- Ancient Near Eastern seals and sealing practices
- Bulla (seal)
- Indus script
- Lachish, ca 700 BCE.
- Scaraboid seal
References
- ^ a b Brown & Feldman 2013, p. 304.
- ^ Di Palma 2015, p. 21.
- ^ a b Di Palma 2015, p. 24.
- ^ Vikan 1991.
Sources
- Garbini. 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. Numerous examples of the Cylinder seal; ( 3 ) separate Discussions (only) of "Stamp sealing". No seals, or impressions thereof.
- Yule, Paul (1981). Early Cretan seals: a study of chronology (Marburger Studien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Bd. 4). Mainz: NN. .
- Di Palma, Salvatore (2015). The History of Marks from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Société des écrivains.
- Brown, Brian A.; Feldman, Marian H. (2013). Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9781614510352.
- Vikan, Gary (1991-01-01). "Stamps, Commercial". The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stamp seals of archaeology.
- Detail of Stamp seal-Medium Res;
- Article mcclungmuseum.utk.edu—Jar, and associated Stamp Seal
- Gazelle Head, Stamp seal – at the Oriental Institute of Chicago.
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