23 May 2003

Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Kist Collection Three Millennia of Miniature Reliefs
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: Contributions by Dominique Collon, Frans Wiggermann and Geoffrey Turner. Not only their in function Ancient Near Eastern daily life makes stamp and cylinder seals an important subject of study, but also their outstanding aesthetic beauty. The examples of stamp and cylinder seals catalogued and described in the present volume are part of the collection of Ancient Near Eastern glyptic art acquired by the Kist family during the last century. The majority of the artifacts are published here for the first time, making the volume into a unique and essential resource for Ancient Near Eastern scholars and art historians.
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