Script and seal use on Cyprus in the Bronze and Iron Ages / edited by Joanna S. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Joanna S., 1965-

Archaeological Institute of America

Series:

Colloquia and conference papers ; no. 4.

Colloquia and conference papers ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cylinder seals--Cyprus--Congresses.

Cylinder seals.

Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan--Congresses.

Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan.

Inscriptions--Cyprus--Congresses.

Inscriptions.

Antiquities.

Cyprus--Antiquities--Congresses.

Cyprus.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 248 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Archaeological Institute of America, [2002]

Summary:

This volume explores different approaches to the "contextual" study of Cypriot scripts and seals, and fosters a more integrated view of cultural continuities and discontinuities through time and space, and among different methods of recording in Cyprus.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Problems and Prospects in the Study of Script and Seal Use on Cyprus in the Bronze and Iron Ages / Joanna S. Smith 1

Chapter 2 Marks on Pots: Patterns of Use in the Archaeological Record at Enkomi / Nicolle E. Hirschfeld 49

Chapter 3 Device, Image, and Coercion: The Role of Glyptic in the Political Economy of Late Bronze Age Cyprus / Jennifer M. Webb 111

Chapter 4 The Display and Viewing of the Syllabic Inscriptions of Rantidi Sanctuary / Georgia Bonny Bazemore 155

Chapter 5 The Stamp Seals of Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age: An Introduction / Andres T. Reyes 213

Chapter 6 Seals and Writing in the Ancient Near East and Cyprus: Observations from Context / Barry B. Powell 227.

Notes:

Papers presented at the 1997 Archaeological Institute of America colloquium.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0960904271

OCLC:

49283988