Acronym
01D228010
Code
01D22810
Duration
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Historical theory and methodology
- History
- Art studies and sciences
Keywords
assyriology
art history
glyptic
Project description
This study aims at defining the use of Old Babylonian seals as expressions of the family tradition. By studying the seal use of different families, this research intends to contribute to the study of the Old Babylonian society. The corpus will be composed on the basis of a unique seal database of the Department Assyriology (Ghent University).