Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Stamp Seals III. Impressions of Stamp Seals on Cuneiform Tablets, Clay Bullae and far Handles

摘要

This is a beautifully produced book. The culmination of forty years' work, it publishes sealings on clay artifacts in the collections of the Department of the Middle East (formerly Western AsiaticrnAntiquities) of the British Museum. Most of the sealings dealt with come from Mesopotamia, from a mixture of cuneiform tablets and uninscribed bullae, and dating from the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods. Another body of material comes from Palestine, mainly impressions on jar handles (above all from Lachish) but also a clay sealing from a papyrus document (No. 819). The sealings are presented in chronological order, an arrangement which will be of great assistance to art historians.