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Project

Sealing tradition and traditional seals. A study of family continuity expressed through seals and sealing in Old Babylonian Sippar

Outputs and Outcomes

Acronym

01D228010

Code

01D22810

Duration

01 October 2010 → 30 September 2012

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Michel Tanret

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- 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).

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