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  • Chapter Five - Rematerializing the Early Dynastic Banquet Seal

  • from Part I - The Ancient Near East and Cyprus
  • Edited by Marta Ameri, Colby College, Maine, Sarah Kielt Costello, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Gregg Jamison, Sarah Jarmer Scott
  • Book:
    Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World
    Published online:
    24 April 2018
    Print publication:
    03 May 2018, pp 68-80

  • Summary

    The banquet seal of third-millennium southern Mesopotamia is a rich source of information relating to the social, political, and religious practices of Sumerian elites, including women. Applying concepts of materiality to the banquet seal, I will argue that this type of seal came into use as part of broader changes in social order, in which elites used material culture, including seals, to establish and maintain their control over a social hierarchy that was becoming ever more steep. The banquet seal, with its image of elite feasting, helped structure and reinforce that social hierarchy. Made from materials in a limited range of colors, and carved with simple, legible scenes known in other media, the banquet seal was part of a suite of self-referential visual culture whose redundancy increased the power and readability of its message. This chapter demonstrates how viewing seals through the lens of materiality allows us to look beyond imagery and seal function to how seals helped constitute social relations.

Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World
  • Case Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia
  • Edited by Marta Ameri, Sarah Kielt Costello, Gregg Jamison, Sarah Jarmer Scott
  • Published online:
    24 April 2018
    Print publication:
    03 May 2018
  • Studies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and ideological systems in ancient societies throughout the Old World. Previously, scholarship has focused on description and documentation, chronology and dynastic histories, administrative function, iconography, and style. More recent studies have emphasized context, production and use, and increasingly, identity, gender, and the social lives of seals, their users, and the artisans who produced them. Using several methodological and theoretical perspectives, this volume presents up-to-date research on seals that is comparative in scope and focus. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach advances our understanding of the significance of an important class of material culture of the ancient world. The volume will serve as an essential resource for scholars, students, and others interested in glyptic studies, seal production and use, and sealing practices in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Ancient South Asia and the Aegean during the 4th-2nd Millennia BCE.

  • One - The “Investiture” Painting from Mari

  • Mehmet-Ali Ataç, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East
    Published online:
    26 February 2018
    Print publication:
    08 March 2018, pp 30-49
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  • Three - The Flood Myth as Paradigm

  • Mehmet-Ali Ataç, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East
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    26 February 2018
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    08 March 2018, pp 81-101
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  • Two - The Iconographic Analysis of the Mari Painting

  • Mehmet-Ali Ataç, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East
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    26 February 2018
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    08 March 2018, pp 50-80
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