=====Resources for seals and sealings=====

**Links**

* {{:buchananmooreystampsealstypology.pdf|Link to Buchanan and Moorey's stamp seals typology}}\\


===== Physical seals catalogues =====

==== Large Catalogues ====


**Amiet, Pierre.** 1972. //Glyptique susienne, Volume 1 – 2// (= Mémoires de la Délégation Archaéologique en Iran 43; Paris.

**Buchanan, B.** 
1981. //Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection//. New Haven: Yale University Press.

1966. //Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, Volume 1: Cylinder Seals//. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

**Buchanan, B. and Moorey, P. R. S.** 
1988. //Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, Volume 3: The Iron Age Stamp Seals (c. 1200-350 B.C.)//. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1984. //Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, Volume 2: Prehistoric Stamp Seals//. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

**Collon, D.**
2001. //Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals, Vol. V//. London: British Museum Publications.

1986. //Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals, Vol III//. London: British Museum Publications.

1982. //Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals, Vol. II//. London: British Museum Publications.

**Delaporte, L.** 
1923. //Catalogue des cylindres, cachets et pierres gravées de style oriental. 2: Acquisitions//. Paris: Hachette.

1920. //Catalogue des cylindres, cachets et pierres gravées de style oriental. 1: Fouilles et missions//. Paris: Hachette.

1910. //Catalogue des cylindres orientaux et des cachets assyro-babyloniens, perses et syro-cappadociens de la Bibliothéque nationale//. Paris.

**Hammade, H.**
1994. //Cylinder Seals From the Collections of the Aleppo Museum, Syrian Arab Republic, Vol. 2: Seals of Known Provenance//. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum.

1987. //Cylinder Seals From the Collections of the Aleppo Museum, Syrian Arab Republic, Vol. 2: Seals of Unknown Provenience//. Oxford: B.A.R.

**Keel-Leu, H. and Teissier, B.** 
2004. //Die vorderasiatischen Rollsiegel der Sammlungen «Bibel+Orient» der Universität Freiburg Schweiz//. Fribourg: Academic Press.

**Kist, J.** 
2003. //Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Kist Collection: Three Millennia of Miniature Reliefs//. Leiden: Brill.

**Le Brun, A.** 1978. "La glyptique du niveau 17B de l’acropole (campagne de 1972). " Cahiers de la D.A.F.I. (CahDAFI) Paris. 

**Mitchell, T.C. and Searight, A.** 
2008. //Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum. Stamp Seals III. Impressions of Stamp Seals on Cuneiform Tablets, Clay Bullae, and Jar Handles//. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

**Merrillees, P. H.** 
2005. //Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals, Vol. VI//. London: British Museum Publications. 

1990. //Cylinder and Stamp Seals in Australian Collections//. Victoria, Australia: Victoria College Press.

**Møller, E.** 
1992. //Ancient Near Eastern Seals in a Danish Collection//. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.

**Moorey, P. R. S., and Gurney, O. R.** 
1978. ‘Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals Acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1963-1973’. //Iraq// 40. No. 1: 41-60.

**Porada, E.**
1947. //Mesopotamian Art in Cylinder Seals of the Pierpont Morgan Library//. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library.

**Porada, E., with Buchanan, B.**
1948. //Corpus of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in North American Collections: The Collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library (2 volumes)//. Washington, D.C.: Bollingen Foundation.

**Teissier, B.** 
1984. //Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals From the Marcopoli Collection// Berkeley, California: University of California Press.

**Von der Osten, H.H.** 
1934. //Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mr. Edward T. Newell//. OIP Vol. XXII. Chicago. 
**Ward, W. H.**
1909. //Cylinders and Other Ancient Oriental Seals in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan, Catalogued//. New York: privately printed.
 
**Wiseman, D. J.** 
1962. //Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals, Vol. I//. London: Trustees of the British Museum.\\
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==== Small Catalogues ====

**Beck, P.**
1977. 'The Cylinder Seals' //Tombs Near the Persian Garden//. Ben-Arieh, S. And Edelstein, G. //Atiqot// English Series 12. 63-9. 

**Ben-Tor, A.**
1978. //Cylinder Seals of Third-Millenium Palestine//. Cambridge, Massachusetts: American Schools of Oriental Research.

**Bleibtreu, E.**
1981. //Rollsiegel aus dem Vorderen Orient. Zur Steinschneidekunst zwischen etwa 3200 und 400 vor Christus nach Beständen in Wien und Graz//. Sonderausstellung der Ägyptisch-Orientalischen Sammlung im Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museums in Wien. Wien: Verlag für Vorderasiatische Archäologie.

**Collon, D.**
1982. //The Alalakh Cylinder Seals: A New Catalogue of the Actual Seals Excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley at Tell Atchana, and From Neighbouring Sites on the Syrian-Turkish Border//. Oxford: B.A.R.

**De Clercq, L. and Menant, J.** 1888. //Collection de Clercq : catalogue méthodique et raisonné : antiquités assyriennes, cylindres orientaux, cachets, briques, bronzes, bas-reliefs, etc.//Paris.

**Delaporte, L.** //Catalogue du Musée Guimet - cylindres orientaux//. (Annales du Musée Guimet 33). Paris.

**Deutsch, R. and A. Lemaire** 
2000. //Biblical Period Personal Seals in the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection//. Archaeological Center Publications: Tell Aviv, Israel. 

**Eisen, G.A.** 
1940. //Ancient Oriental Cylinder and Other Seals with a Description of the Collection of Mrs. William H. Moore//. OIP vol. XLVII. Chicago. 

**Frankfort, H.**
1955. //Stratified Cylinder Seals From the Diyala Region//. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

**Glock, A.**
1988. //Minuscule Monuments of Ancient Art: Catalogue of Near Eastern Stamp and Cylinder Seals Collected by Virginia E. Bailey in Memory of Katherine J. Hammersley//. Madison, New Jersey: New Jersey Museum of Archaeology at Drew University.

**Gordon, C.** 1939. 'Western Asiatic seals in the Walters Art Gallery'. //Iraq// 6. 3-34.

**Kjærum, P.**
1983. //Failaka/Dilmun : The Second Millennium Settlements, Vol.1:1, The Stamp and Cylinder Seals: Plates and Catalogue Descriptions//. Moesgård, Aarhus: Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab.

**Lambert, W.G.** 1979. 'Near Eastern seals in the Gulbekian Museum of Oriental Art, University of Durham'. //Iraq// 41. 1-45.

**Legrain, L.** 1951. //Seal Cylinders//. (Ur Excavations X) London and Philadelphia.

**Mazzoni, S.** 1972. 'Sigilli cilindrici dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli'. //Annali dell'istituto Orientale di Napoli// 32. 417-51.

**Meijer, D. J. W.**
1978. //Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals in the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam//. Leiden: S.N. 

**Merrillees, P.H.** 
1990. //Cylinder and Stamp Seals in Australian Collections//. Victoria College Archaeology Research Unit Occasional Paper No. 3. Victoria College Press: Australia.

**Moorey, P.R.S. and Gurney, O.R.** 1978. 'Ancient Near Eastern cylinder seals acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1963-73'. //Iraq// 40. 41-60. 

**Moortgat-Correns, U.** 1955. 'Altorientalische Rollsiegel in der Staatlichen Münzsammlung München'. //Münchener Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst//6. 7-27.

**Munn-Rankin, J.M.** 1959. 'Ancient Near Eastern seals in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge'. //Iraq// 21. 20-37. 

**Noveck, M.**
1975. //The Mark of Ancient Man: Ancient Near Eastern Stamp Seals and Cylinder Seals, The Gorelick Collection//. New York: Brooklyn Museum.

**Ravn, O. E.**
1960. //A Catalogue of Oriental Cylinder Seals and Seal Impressions in the Danish National Museum//. Copenhagen: Nationalmuseet.

**Thorn, B. and Collon, D.** 2013. "Dr. Lee's Collection of Cylinder Seals" //Iraq// LXXV, 119-142. 

**Van Buren, E. D.**
1959. //Catalogue of the Ugo Sissa Collection of Stamp and Cylinder Seals of Mesopotamia//. Rome: S.N.

1940. //The Cylinder Seals of the Pontifical Biblical Institute//. Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum.

**Williams-Forte, E.**
1976. //Ancient Near Eastern Seals: A Selection of Stamp and Cylinder Seals From the Collection of Mrs William H. Moore//. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. \\
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===== Technological Studies =====


**Gorelick, L.** 1986. 'Further investigation of the method of manufacture of an ancient Near Eastern artefact'. //Iraq// 48. 15-18. 

1983. 'Ancient Egyptian stone-drilling'. //Expedition// Spring. 40-47. 

1981. 'Functional analysis of drilling using scanning electron microscopy'. //Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli// 41. 327-33.

1981. 'Close work without magnifying lenses? - A hypothetical explanation for the ability of ancient craftsmen to effect minute detail'. //Expedition// winter 27-34.

1975. ‘Near Eastern cylinder seals studied with dental radiography‘. //Dental Radiography and Photography//, v. 48, no. 1: 17-21.

**Gorelick, L.and Gwinnett, A.J.** 1978. 'Ancient seals and modern science - Using the scanning electron microscope as an aid in the study of ancient seals'. //Expedition// winter. 38-47.

**Kenoyer, J.M. and Vidale, M.** 1992. 'A new look at stone drills of the Indus Valley tradition'. //Materials Research Society Symposium//. 495-518.

**Lahanier, C.** 1976. 'Note sur l'emploi de l'heulandite et de la mordénite dans la fabrication de sceaux cylindres proto-élamite'. //Annales du Laboratoire de Recherche des Musées de France//. 65-6.

**Lambert, W.G.** 'The training of a seal-cutter'. //Revue d'Assyriologie// 73. 89.

**Mahrzahn, J.** 
1997. ‘Der «Siegelschneider» nach keilschriftlichen Quellen’. In //Mit Sieben Siegeln versehen: Das Siegel in Wirtschaft und Kunst des Alten Orients//. Ed. E. Klengel-Brandt. Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum.

**Sax, M.** 
1991. ‘Innovative Technqiues Used to Decorate the Perforations of Some Akkadian Rock Crystal Cylinder Seals’. //Iraq//, 53: 91-95.

**Sax, M., Collon, D., and Leese, M. N.** 
1993. ‘The Availability of Raw Materials for near Eastern Cylinder Seals during the Akkadian, Post Akkadian and Ur III Periods’. //Iraq//, 55: 77-90.

**Sax, M., Meeks, N. D., and Collon, D.** 
2000. ‘The Early Development of the Lapidary Engraving Wheel in Mesopotamia’. //Iraq//, 62: 157-176.

**Sax, M. and Meeks, N. D.** 
1994. ‘The Introduction of Wheel Cutting as a Technique for Engraving Cylinder Seals: Its Distinction from Filing’. //Iraq//, 56: 153-166.

**Sax, M., McNabb J., and Meeks, N. D.** 
1998. ‘Methods of engraving Mesopotamian cylinder seals: experimental confirmation’. //Archaeometry//, 40: 1-21.\\
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===== General studies =====


**Al-Gailani Werr, L.** 
1988. ‘Cylinder Seals Made of Clay’. //Iraq// 50: 1-24.

1988. //Studies in the Chronology and Regional Style of Old Babylonian Cylinder Seals//. Malibu: Undena Publications.

1986. 'Gulf (Dilmun) style cylinder seals'. //Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies// 16. 199-201.

1980. 'Chronological table of Old Babylonian seal impressions'. //Institute of Archaeology Bulletin// 17. University of London. 33-84.

**Altavilla, S. and Walker, C. B. F.** 
2009. //Late Babylonian Seal Impressions on Tablets in the British Museum. Part 1: Sippar.// Messina: Di.Sc.A.M.

**Amiet, P.** 1980. //La Glyptique Mésopotamienne archaïque//. Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique:Paris. 

1980. ‘The Mythological Repertory in Cylinder Seals of the Agade Period (c. 2335-2155 B.C.)’. In //Ancient Art in Seals//. Ed. E. Porada. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 35-59.

1973. "Glyptique Élamite à propos de documents nouveaux". //Arts Asiatiques// 26, 3-24.

1973. 'La Glyptique de la fin de l'Elam'. //Arts Asiatiques// 28. 3-32.

1973. //Bas-reliefs imaginaires d'après les cachets et les sceaux-cylindres// Exhibition catalogue, Hôtel de la Monnaie, Paris.

1961. 'La Gylptique de Mari à l'époque du Palais, note additionnelle'. //Syria// 38. 1-6. 

1960. 'Notes sur le répertoire iconographique de Mari à l'époque du Palais'.  //Syria// 37. 215-32.

1957. 'Notes de Glyptique Orientale' //Cahiers de Byrsa// 7. 23-7.

**Asher-Greve, J. M.** 
1995. ‘A Seal-Cutter’s Trial-Piece in Berlin and a New Look at the Diqdiqqeh Lapiday Workshops’. //Iraq// 57: 49-60.

**Auerbach, E.** 
1991. ‘Heirloom seals and political legitimacy in Late Bronze Age Syria’. //Akkadica// 74-75: 19-36.

**Beran, T.** 1957-8. 'Die babylonische Glyptik der Kassitenzeit'. Archiv für Orientforschung 18. 255-278.

1957. 'Assyrische Glyptik des 14. Jahrhunderts'. //Zeitschrift für Assyriologie// 18. 141-215. 

**Boehmer, J. M.** 1985. 'Glyptik aus den italienischen Ausgrabungen im Hamrin-Gebeit'. //Mesopotamia// 20. 5-21. 

1981. 'Glyptik der späten Kassiten-Zeit aus dem nord-östlichen Babylonien,' //Baghdader Mitteilungen// 12. 71-81. 

1975. 'Gylptik von der alt- bis zur spätbabylonischen Zeit'. //Der alte Orient// Ortmann, W. (ed). Propyläen Kunstgeschichte 14. Berlin. 

1974. 'Das Rollsiegel im prädynastischen Ägypten'. //Archäologischer Anzeiger//. 495-514. 

1969. 'Zur Glyptik zwischen Mesilim und Akkad-Zeit (Early Dynastie III).' //Zeitschrift für Assyriologie// 25. 261-94. 

1965. //Die Entwicklung der Glyptik während der Akkad-zeit//. Berlin: De Gruyter.

**Brandes, M.A.** 1980. 'Medellage et imprimerie aux débuts de l'écriture en Mésopotamie'. //Akkadica// 18. 1-30. 

1980. ' 'Waffenkammer' - ein neuesSiegelthema der Uruk-Zeit'. //Forschungen und Funde - Festschrift Bernhard Neutsch//. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft 21). 77-87.  

**Buchanan, B.** 

1970. 'Cylinder seal impressions in the Yale Babylonian collection illustrating a revolution in art c. 1700 BC'. //The Yale University Library Gazette// 45. 53-65. 

1957.'Further observations on the Syrian glyptic style'. //Journal of Cuneiform Studies// 11. 74-6. 

1957. 'On the seal impressions of some Old Babylonian tablets'. //Journal of Cuneiform Studies// 11. 46-52.

**Camiz, S., E. Rova and V. Tuli** 2010. "Modelling the Archaeologist’s Thinking for the Automatic Classification of Uruk Jamdat Nasr Seals Images". //Beyond the Artifact. Digital Interpretation of the Past. Proceedings of CAA 2004, Prato 13-17 April 2004.// Franco Niccolucci and Sorin Hermon (Editors). CAA, Archaeolingua: Budapest. 

**Caubet, A.** (Ed) 
1997. //De Chypre à la Bactriane. Les sceaux du Proche-Orient ancien//. Louvre Conférences et colloques. 

**Colbow, G.**
1995. //Die Spätaltbabylonische Glyptik Südbabyloniens//. Münchener Universitäts-Schriften Philosophische Fakultät 12. München/Vien.

**Collon, D.** 
2005. //First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East// (2nd Ed). London: British Museum Press.

1990. //Near Eastern Seals//. British Museum Publications. 

1986. 'The green jasper cylinder seal workshop' Buccellati, M.K. et al (eds) //Papers in honour of Edith Porada//. Malibu. 

1985. 'A north Syrian cylinder seal style: evidence of north-south links with 'Ajjul'. //Tubb, J.N. (ed). Palestine in the Bronze and Iron Ages - Papers in honour of Olga Tufnell//. Institute of Archaeology, London. 57-68. 

1981. 'The seal impressions'. //The river Qoueiq, northern Syria, and its catchment//. (British Archaeological Reports, International Series 98). Oxford. Matthers, J. (ed). 499-501.

**Collon, D., Gubel, E. and Lambrechts, J.** 1985. 'Mesopotamische en egyptische glyptiek van de verzamelingen van het Vleeshuis te Antwerpen - Omtrent vier ongepubliceerde zegels'. //Antwerpen//. 131-6. 

**Contenau, G.** 
1922. //La Glyptique Syro-Hittite// Thèse pour le Doctorat ès-Lettres présentée à la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université de Paris. Librarie Paul Geuthner: Paris. 

**Cullimore, A.** 1842-1901. //Oriental Cylinders//. No's 1-4. London.

**de la Füye, A.** 1907. 'Les Sceaux de Lougalanda, patési de Lagash Sirpourla, et de sa femme Barnamtarra'. Revue d'Assyriologie 6. 105-25.

**De Miroschedji, P.** 1982. 'Notes sur la glyptique de la fin de l'Elam'. //Revue d'Assyriologie// 76. 51-63.

1981. 'Le dieu élamite au serpent et aux eaux jaillissantes'. //Iranica AAntiqua// 16. 1-25. 

**Eppihimer, M.** 2013'The Old Assyrian Rulers’ Seals and Their Ur III Prototype'. //Journal of Near Eastern Studies//. 72:1. 35-49

**Erlenmeyer, M.-L. and H.** 1966.'Einige syrische Siegel mit ägäischen Bildelementen'. //Archiv für Orientforschung// 21. 32-4.

**Feingold, R.**
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**Frankfort, H.** 1939. //Cylinder Seals//. London.

**Gibson, McG. and Biggs, R.D.** 1977. //Seals and sealings in the Ancient Near East//. (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 6). Malibu. 

**Greengus, S.** 
1995. ‘Legal and Social Institutions of Ancient Mesopotamia’. In //Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Vol. I//. Ed. J. Sasson, et al. New York: Scribners: 469-484. 

**Hallo, W. W.** 
1977. ‘Seals Lost and Found’. In //Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East//. Ed. M. Gibson and R. D. Biggs. Malibu: Undena Publications: 55-60.

1973. 'The seals of Aššur-remani'. //Symbolae Biblicae et Mesopotamicae Francisco Mario Theodoro de Liagre Böhl dedicatae//. Leiden 180-4.

**Hamilton, R. W.** 
1967. ‘A Sumerian Cylinder Seal with Handle in the Ashmolean Museum’. //Iraq// 29, No. 1: 34-41.

**Hogarth, D.** 1920. //Hittite Seals//. Oxford.

**Ishida, K.** 1983. 'The Ancient Near Eastern stamp-cylinder seals'. //Bulletin of the Ancient Orient museum//5. 281-98.

**Karg, N.** 1984. //Untersuchungen zur älteren frühdynastischen Glyptik Babyloniens : Aspekte regionaler Entwicklungen in der ersten Hälfte des 3. Jahrtausends//. Baghdader Forschungen 8.

**Klengel-Brandt, E.** (ed.) 1997. //Mit Sieben Siegeln versehen: das Siegel in Wirtschaft und Kunst des Alten Orients//. 

**Kirk Grayson, A. and Ruby J.** 
1997. ‘Instructions for Inscribing Sennacherib’s Seal’. //Iraq// 59: 89-91.

**Klengel-Brandt, E (Ed).** 
1997. //Mit Sieben Siegeln versehen: Das Siegel in Wirtschaft und Kunst des Alten Orients//. Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum.

**Larsen, M. T.** 
1977. ‘Seal Use in the Old Assyrian Period’. In //Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East//. Ed. M. Gibson and R. D. Biggs. Malibu: Undena Publications: 89-106.

**Leclant, J.** 1960. 'Astarte à cheval d'après les représentations égyptiennes'. //Syria// 37. 1-67.

**Legrain, L.**1925. //The Culture of the Babylonians from their Seals in the Collection of the Museum// (Publications of the Babylonian Section 14). Philadelphia.
 
**Limet, H.** 1971. //Les Légendes des sceaux cassites//. (Académie royale de Belgique, Class des lettres et des sciantes morales et politiques, Mémoires LX). Brussels.
 
**Mallowan, M.E.L.** 1964. 'A cylinder seal in the Uruk-Jemdet Nasr style'. //Baghdader Mitteilungen// 3. 65-7.

**Masimov, I.S.** 1981. 'New finds of the Bronze Age - Seals from the Lower Murgab'. //Soviet Archaeology// 2. 132-50.

**Matthews, R.J.** 
1993. //Cities, Seals and Writing: Archaic Seal Impressions from Jemdet Nasr and Ur//. Materialien zu den frühen Schriftzeugnissen des Vorderen Orients. Band 2. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann. 

**Matthews, D. M.**

1990.//Principles of Composition in Near Eastern Glyptic of the Late Second Millennium B.C.// OBO SA 8. 
 
**Moortgat, A.** 1944.'Assyrische Glyptik des 12. Jahrhunderts'. //ZA// 14. 24-44.

1942.'Assyrische Glytpik des 13. Jahrhunderts'. //ZA// 13. 50-88.

1940. //Vorderasiatische Rollsiegel: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst//. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann. 

**Moortgat-Correns** 1955. Review of Buchanan 1966 in //Orientalische Literatur Zeitung// 64.

**Nagel, W.** 1963. 'Datierte Glyptik aus Altvorderasien'. //Archiv für Orientforschung//20. 125-40.

1957-8. 'Glyptische Probleme der Larsa-Zeit'. //Archiv für Orientforschung// 18. 319-27.

**Nissen, H. J.** 
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**Nissen, H. J., Damerow, P., and Englund, R. K.** 
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**Opificius, R.** 1957-71. 'Gottessiegel'. //Reallexikon der Assyriologie III//. 576-80.

**Pittman, H.**
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1994. //The Glazed Steatite Glyptic Style//. Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient Band 16: Berlin.

**Porter, Barbara A.**
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**Porada, E.** 


1979. 'Remarks on Mitannian (Hurrian) and Middle Assyrian Glyptic Art'. //Akkadica// 13. 2-15. 

1977. 'A cylinder seal with a camel in the Walters Art Gallery'. //The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery// 36. 1-6.

1960. ‘Notes on the Sargonid Cylinder Seal, Ur 364’. //Iraq// 22: 116-123.

1947. 'Suggestions for the classification of Neo-Babylonian cylinder seals'. //Orientalia// 16. 145-65.

1946. 'The Origin of Winnirke's Cylinder Seal', //JNES// 5. 257-9.

**Rathje, W. L.** 
1977. ‘New Tricks for Old Seals: A Progress Report’. In //Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East//. Ed. M. Gibson and R. D. Biggs. Malibu: Undena Publications: 25-32.

**Renger, J.** 
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**Rohn, K.** 
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**Sollberger, E.** 
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**Stiehler-Alegria Delgado, G.**
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**Steinkeller, P.** 
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**Taylor, P.** 
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**Wengrow, D.** 2008. 'Prehistories of commodity branding'. //Current Anthropology// 49:1. 7-34.

**Wiseman, D. J.** 
1958. //The Vassal-Treaties of Esarhaddon//. London: British School of Archaeology
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**Zettler, R. L.** 
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===== Seals, sealings and impressions by region and site =====

==== Iraq ====

**Al-Gailani Werr, L.** 1983. 'Cylinder seal discoveries in the Hamrin Basin' //Ur - The International Magazine of Arab Culture// 1. 47-50.

== Nimrud ==
**Parker,B.** 1962. 'Excavations at Nimrud, 1955-8: Seal and seal impressions'. //Iraq// 17. 93-125.

1955. 'Excavations at Nimrud, 1949-53: Seal and seal impressions'. //Iraq// 24. 26-40.

== Nippur ==

**Bregstein, L.B.** //Seal use in fifth century B.C. Nippur, Iraq: A study of seal selection and sealing practices in the Murašu Archive//. University of Pennsylvania dissertation.

**Matthews, D.M.** 1992. //The Kassite Glyptic of Nippur//.Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 116.

== Nuzi ==

**Porada, E.** 1947. //Seal impressions of Nuzi//. American Schools of Oriental Research. New Haven.

== Sippar ==

**Al-Gailani Werr, L.** 
1986. ‘The Sippar Workshop of Seal Engraving’. //American Journal of Archaeology//, Vol. 90, No. 4: 461-463.

**Teissier, B.** 1998. ‘Sealing and Seals: Seal-Impressions from the Reign of Hammurabi on Tablets from Sippar in the British Museum’. Iraq, 60: 109-186.

== Tell al Rimah ==

**Parker, B.** 1975. 'Cylinder seals from Tell al Rimah'. //Iraq// 37. 21-38.


== Tell Billa ==

1991. "Middle Assyrian Glyptic from Tell Billa" //Iraq//53. p 17-42. 

== Tell Sifr ==

**Charpin, D.** 
1980. //Archives familiales et propriété privée en Babylonie ancienne: étude des documents de «Tell Sifr»//. Genève: Droz.

== Ur ==

**Legrain, L.** 1936. //Archaic Seal-impressions//. (Ur Excavations III). London and Philadelphia.

**Buchanon and Briggs** 1953.  [Review of] Seal cylinders, Ur excavations, v. 10, by L. Legrain. Publications of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia to Mesopotamia.

**Moorey, P.R.S.** 1979. 'Unpublished Early Dynastic dealings from Ur in the British Museum'. //Iraq// 41. 105-21.

== Uruk ==

**Brandes, M. A.**
1979. //Siegelabrollungen aus den archaischen Bauschichten in Uruk-Warka//. Wiesbaden: F. Steiner.

**Boehmer, R.M.** 1999. //Uruk - Früheste Abrollungen// (Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka Endberichte 24). Mainz am Rhein. 

1984. 'Uruk: Funde im Zusammenhang mit Tierknochen'. //Baghdader Mitteilungen// 15. 191-6. 

**Collon, D.**
1981-1982. Reviews of Brandes, M.A., 1979. //Siegelabrollungen aus den archaischen Bauschichten in Uruk-Warka//. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner. Archiv für Orientforschung 28, 177-81. 
==== Iran ====
**Moorey, P.R.S.** 1979. 'Aspects of worship and ritual on Achaemenid seals'. //Archäeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran Ergänzungsband//6. 218-26.

**Pittman, H.** 2001. 'The Jeweler's Seal from Susa and Art of Awan'. //Leaving no stones unturned : essays on the ancient Near East and Egypt in honor of Donald P. Hansen//. Ehrenberg, E.(Ed.) Eisenbraun: Winona Lake.

**Roach, K.J.** 2008. //The Elamite Cylinder Seal Corpus, c. 3500 - 1000// BC Doctor of Philosophy, (Near Eastern) Archaeology The University of Sydney. [[http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/5352|Download PDFs (four volumes)]]

== Choga Zanbil ==

**Porada, E.** 1970. //Tchoga Zanbil IV: La glyptique//. (Mémoires de la Délégation en Iran 42. Paris. 

== Hasanlu ==

**Marcus, M. I.**
1990. ‘Glyptic Style and Seal Function: the Hasanlu Collection’. In //Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administration//. Ed. T. G. Palaima. Liège : Université de Liège, Histoire de l'art et archéologie de la Grèce antique.

== Persepolis ==
**Garrison, M.B. and Root, M.C.** 2001. //Seals on the Persepolis Fortification tablets 1. Images of heroic encounter//. (Oriental Institute Publications 117). 2 volumes. Chicago. 

== Susa ==

**Amiet, P.** 
1988. "Les modes d'utilisation des sceaux à Suse au Ive millénaire". //Archaeologische Mitteilungen aux Iran//21, 7-16. 

1985. "À propos de l'usage et de l'iconographie des sceaux à Suse". //Paléorient//11:2, 37-8. 

1971. La Glyptique de l'Acropole (1969-1971). Tablettes lenticulaires de Suse. Cahiers de la Délégation Archéologique Français en Iran 1, 217-33.

**Charvát, P.** 1988. "Archaeology and Social History: the Susa Sealings, ca. 4000-2350 B.C.". //Paléorient//14, 57-63.
==== The Levant ====

**Beck, P and Rainey, A.** 1973. 'A votive cylinder seal'. //Beer-Sheba// 1, Tel Aviv. Aharoni, Y. (ed).  

**Parker, B.** 1949. 'Cylinder seals from Palestine'. //Iraq// 11. 1-43.

**Porada, E.** 1975-6. 'The cylinder seal from Tomb 66 at Ruweise'. //Berytus// 26. 27-33.


== Arad ==

**Beck, P.** 1984. 'The seals and stamps of early Arad'. //Tel Aviv// 11. 97-114. 

== Byblos ==

**Porada,E.** 1966. 'Les cylindres de la Jarre Montet'. //Syria// 43. 243-58.

**Ward, W.A. and Tufnell, O.** 1966.'Relations between Byblos, Egypt and Mesopotamia at the end of the third millennium B.C. A Study of a Montet Jar'. //Syria// 43. 165-241. 

== Lachish ==

1983. 'A Cypriote Cylinder Seal from Lachish'. //Excavations at Tel Lachish 1978-83//. Ussishkin, D. (Ed). //Tel Aviv// 10/2. 178-81.

== Tell Fadous-Kfarabida ==

**Genz, Hermann.** 2009. 'A Stamp Seal Impression from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida'. //Annales d'histoire et d'archéologie Université Saint-Joseph, Beyrouth// Vol. 18, 2007-2009. 51·57
==== Syria ====

**Amiet, P.** 1963. 'La Gylptique Syrienne Archaïque', //Syria// 40. 57-83.

**Kühne, H. et al.** 1980. //Das Rollsiegel in Syrien//. Tűbingen.

**Mazzoni, S.** 1972. 'Il trionfo sul nemico: trasformazione di un motivo iconografico in Siria e in Anatolia'. //Vicino Oriente// 6. 71-93.

**Mode, H.** 1950. 'Ūber einige syrische Siegelzylinders aus Schweizer Sammlungen'. //Archív Orientálí// 18. 82-7.

**Nougayrol, J and Amiet, P.** 1962. 'Le sceau de Sumirapa roi de Tuba'. //Revue d'Assyriologie// 56. 169-74.

**Otto, A.** 2000. //Die Entstehung und Entwicklung der Klassik-Syrischen Glyptik//. Berlin

**Porada, E.** 1957. 'Forged North Syrian Seals'. //Archaeology// 10:2. 143. 

== Alalakh ==

**Collon, D.** 1975. //The Seal Impressions from Tell Atchana/Alalakh//. Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker.

1975. 'La glyptique hourrite d'Alalakh' //Revue hittite et asianique// 36. 35-41. 

== Ebla ==

**Matthiae, P.** 1969. 'Emprientes d'un cylindre paléosyrien de Tell Mardikh'. //Syria// 46. 1-43.

**Mazzoni, S.** 1984. 'Seal-impressions on jars from Ebla in EB I (V) A-B'. //Akkadika// 18-45.

1975. 'Tell Mardikh e una classe di glittica siro-anatolica del periodo di Larsa'. //Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli// 35. 21-43.  


== Emar ==

**Singer, I.** 1995. ‘Borrowing Seals at Emar’. In Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Symposium held on September 2, 1993, Jerusalem, Israel. Ed. J. Goodnick Westenholz. Jerusalem: Bible Lands Museum: 57-64.

**Beyer, D.** 2001. //Emar IV: Les sceaux// (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Series Archaeologica 20). Fribourg. 

1980. 'Notes préliminaires sur les empreintes de sceaux de Meskéne'. //Le Moyen Euphrate, Zone de contacts et d'échanges// (Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg 10-12 mars 1977) Leiden.

== Mari ==

**Amiet, P.** 1961. 'La Gylptique de Mari à l'époque du Palais, note additionnelle'. Syria 38. 1-6.

1960. 'Notes sur le répertoire iconographique de Mari à l'époque du Palais'. Syria 37. 215-32.

**Beyer, D.** 1985. Nouveauz documents iconographiques de l'époque des Shakkanakku de Mari'. //Mari,Annales de Recherches Interdisciplinaires// 4 (Editions Recherche sur les civilisations). Paris. 173-89.

1985. 'Scellements de portes du palais de Mari'. //Mari,Annales de Recherches Interdisciplinaires// 4 (Editions Recherche sur les civilisations). Paris.  375-84.

1984. 'Le sceau de Kabi-Addu, fils d'Asqudum'. //Mari, Annales de Recherches Interdisciplinaires// 2 (Editions Recherche sur les civilisations). Paris. 255-6.

== Tell Brak ==

**Matthews, D. M.** 1998. 'Image and function in early Ninevite 5 administration'. //Written on Clay and Stone. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Krystyna Szarzyńska on the Occasion of Her 80th Birthday//. Agade: Warsaw. 

1997. //The Early Glyptic of Tell Brak: Cylinder Seals of Third Millennium Syria//. University Press: Göttingen.

== Tell Fakhariyah ==
**Kantor, H.J.** 1958. 'The Glyptic'. //Soundings at Tell Fakhariyah//. McEwan, C.W. (ed). OIP 79. 69-85.

== Tell Leilan ==

** Parayre, D. ** 2004-5. 'Les empreintes de sceaux de Tell Leilan au Bronze Moyen'.//Les annales archéologiques arabes syriennes : revue d'archéologie et d'histoire//47-48: 63-75. 

2003. 'The Ninevite 5 Sequence of Glyptic at Tell Leilan'. //The origins of North Mesopotamian civilization// Weiss, H. (ed.). Turnhout:Brepols. 271-310 

1989. 'Tell Leilan 1987: Sceaux et empreintes de sceaux'. //Les annales archéologiques arabes syriennes: Revue d'archéologie et d'histoire//. 38-39: 128-141. 

1991. 'Notes sur la glyptique de Tell Leilan à l'époque paléo-babylonienne'. //Marchands, diplomates et empereurs//. Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations (ERC). 389-396

== Tell Sabi Abyad ==
**Akkermans, P.M.M.G.** 1997 'Seals and Seal Impressions from Middle Assyrian Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria', //Subartu// 4. 243-258. [[https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/9951/951_010.pdf?sequence=1|PDF]]
==== Turkey ====

**Alp, S.** 1968. //Zylinder- und Stempelsiegel aus Karahöyük bei Konya//. Ankara.

**Buchholz, H.-G.** 1967. 'XII. The Cylinder Seal.' //Cape Gelidonya: A Bronze Age Shipwreck//. (transactions of the American Philosophical Society 57/8). Bass, G (ed.). Philadelphia. 148-59.

**Işik, C.** 1976-7. 'A Cylinder Seal from Adılcevaz'. //Anadolu//. 88-92.

**Moortgat-Correns, U.** 1965. 'Ein Rollsiegel aus Arsameia'. //ZA// 23. 6-11. 

**Özgüç, N.** 1983. 'Sealings from Acemhöyük in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York'. //Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Kleinasiens - Festschrift fur Kurt Bittel//. Mainz/Rhein. 413-20.

1966. 'Seals allegedly from the regions of Kayseri, Afyonnkarahisar and Malatya'. //Andalou// 10. 167-78.

== Kaneš ==

**Özgüç, N.** 1968. //Seals and seal impressions of level Ib from Karum Kanish//. Ankara.

1965. //The Anatolian Group of cylinder seal impressions from Kültepe//. Ankara. 

**Porada, E.** 1980. 'Kaneš, kārum. C. Die Glyptik'. //Reallexikon der Assyriologie// V/6. Berlin. 383-9. 

**Teissier, B.** 1994. Sealing and Seals on Texts from Kültepe Kārum Level 2. Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul.

==== The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula ====


**Potts, D.T.** 2010. 'Cylinder seals and their use in the Arabian Peninsula'. //Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy//21. 20-40. 
==== Egypt ====

== Amarna ==

**Porada, E.** 1974-7. 'Die Siegelzylinder-Abrollung auf der Amerna-Tafel BM 29841 im Britischen Museum'. //Archiv für Orientforschung// 25. 132-42.

== Tell el-Dab'a ==

**Collon, D., Lehmann, M. and Müller, S.E.M. ** 
2013. 'Tell el-Dab`a sealings 2009-2011' //Ägypten und Levante : Internationale Zeitschrift für ägyptische Archäologie und deren Nachbargebiete//vol. 22-23, 95-104.

**Collon, D., and Lehmann, M.**
2011. 'Report on the sealings found in the 2009 excavations at Tell el-Dab`a'. //Ägypten und Levante : Internationale Zeitschrift für ägyptische Archäologie und deren Nachbargebiete//vol. 21, 67-70.

==== Greece ====

== Thebes ==
**Brinkman, J. A.** 
1981. ‘The Western Asiatic Seals Found at Thebes’. //Archiv für Orientforschung// 28: 73-78.

**Porada, E.** 1981. ‘The Cylinder Seals Found at Thebes in Boeotia’. Archiv für Orientforschung 28: 1-70.