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- Title
İnönü Mağarası’nda Bulunan Geç Tunç Çağı’na Ait Damgalar Üzerine Gözlemler.
- Authors
Ekmen, Hamza
- Abstract
Seals dating back to the Neolithic Age in the Near East world provide important information to understand Prehistoric and Ancient societies. Most researchers emphasize that early seals in the form of stamps were stamps/pintaderas used for printing on textile products, animal skins, wall plasters, bread, or human bodies rather than being objects that reflect personal or institutional belonging. The descriptions/motifs engraved on the printing surfaces of stamps and seals, which were widely used, form the data sources that directly or symbolically describe/reflect many economic, cultural, religious, and magical characteristics of the period and society to which they belong. Two stamps belonging to the Late Bronze Age found in İnönü Cave and examined within the scope of this study have similar morphological properties to the stamp seals of the second millennium BC. It is assumed that the motif on the printing surface of the stamp, which was found intact, may be related to the “sun-cult” symbol, which was widely observed in Anatolia during the Early Bronze Age.
- Subjects
TURKEY; BRONZE Age; GLYPTICS; CARVING (Decorative arts); CULTURE
- Publication
Colloquium Anatolicum, 2023, Issue 22, p117
- ISSN
1303-8486
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.58488/collan.1277832