#glyptic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #glyptic, aggregated by home.social.
-
Three inspiring days of seals, sealings, and stimulating discussions! ✨
Our First KIŠIB Conference _Why Sealing?_ brought together 38 researchers from 11 countries and an international audience in Munich and online to explore new perspectives on sealing practices and social interaction in ancient West Asia.
📖 Read our retrospective and see impressions from the conference on the KIŠIB blog: https://project.kishib.org/blogposts/a-retrospective-on-the-first-kishib-conference
#KISHIB #WhySealing #Archaeology #AncientWestAsia #Glyptic #Seals
-
https://www.wacoca.com/media/656325/ Book Review: Masterpieces in Miniature: Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the Present #BeazleyArchive #Boardman #book #books #cameo #collector #engrave #gem #Gems&Gemology #gemstone #GG #glyptic #historian #intaglio #Lule #Oxford #review #Wagner #書籍
-
https://www.wacoca.com/media/656266/ Book Review: Geology A Very Short Introduction #BeazleyArchive #Boardman #book #books #cameo #collector #engrave #gem #Gems&Gemology #gemstone #GG #glyptic #historian #intaglio #Lule #Oxford #review #Wagner #書籍
-
https://www.wacoca.com/media/652625/ Book Review: Figures & Faces: The Art of Jewelry #BeazleyArchive #Boardman #book #books #cameo #collector #engrave #gem #Gems&Gemology #gemstone #GG #glyptic #historian #intaglio #Lule #Oxford #review #Wagner #書籍
-
How did ancient cities shape their identities? Kepa Martinez Garcia, Fellow of our KIŠIB project, explores Early Dynastic Mesopotamia through its cylinder seals, revealing networks of cooperation and cultural exchange between city-states like Ur, Lagash, and Šuruppak.
📅 10 December 2025 | 4:15 PM
📍 @freieuniversitaet, Holzlaube, Room 0.2052#Mesopotamia #CylinderSeals #Glyptic #Archaeology #KISHIB #FUBerlin
-
This cylinder seal shows a sacrifice in front of a ziggurat. A priest in a long robe faces right, standing before a censer and a sacrificial table with legs ending in animal feet. On the table lie curved offerings and four dotted elements that mark additional gifts.
🔹 Middle Assyrian period (13th-12th BCE)
🔹 Stone cylinder seal, VA 05362
🔹 Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
👉 https://id.smb.museum/object/2065364/#KISHIBProject #mesopotamia #cylinderseal #ziggurat #glyptic