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- Title
The earliest cylinder seal in the Arabian Peninsula.
- Authors
Pittman, Holly; Potts, D.T.
- Abstract
A cylinder seal of Late Uruk (late fourth millennium BC) type from Abu Dhabi is presented and analysed. Comparisons with excavated finds from elsewhere in the Near East are discussed. An inventory of cylinder seals from sites in the UAE and the Sultanate of Oman shows that cylinder seal use, while not unknown in the region, was never very great. The ways in which the seal may have arrived at its eventual place of discovery are described and the significance of the seal is assessed.
- Subjects
ABU Dhabi (United Arab Emirates); IRAQ; UNITED Arab Emirates; CYLINDER seals; GLYPTICS; URUK culture; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; JAMDAT Nasr Site (Iraq)
- Publication
Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy, 2009, Vol 20, Issue 2, p109
- ISSN
0905-7196
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0471.2009.00318.x