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  1. 🔍 Size is relative!

    Seals may generally be small objects, but “small” can mean very different things! Some seals are barely larger than a fingernail, while others look like giants next to them. 🤏 ↔️ ✋

    The two seals shown here both date to the Akkadian period and both depict the Sun God ☀️. They are housed in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.

    Left: 1967.80 | H: 4.25 cm; Dm: 2.67 cm
    Right: 1952.33 | H: 1.55 cm; Dm: 0.9 cm

    #KISIB #AncientSeals #Glyptic #Archaeology

  2. 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: project.kishib.org/blogposts/a

    @BBAW

    #KISHIB #WhySealing #Archaeology #AncientWestAsia #Glyptic #Seals

  3. 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

  4. 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
    👉 id.smb.museum/object/2065364/

    #KISHIBProject #mesopotamia #cylinderseal #ziggurat #glyptic