Script and seal use on Cyprus in the Bronze and Iron Ages
By: edited by Joanna S. Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Joanna S., 1965-; Archaeological Institute of America.
Series: Colloquia and conference papers ;; no. 4
Publisher: Archaeological Institute of America
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Cylinder seals -- Cyprus -- Congresses.; Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan -- Congresses.; Inscriptions -- Cyprus -- Congresses.; Cyprus -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "Script and Seal Use on Cyprus in the Bronze and Iron Ages brings together diverse and innovative approaches to the contextual study of Cypriot scripts and seals, fostering a more integrated view of cultural continuities and discontinuities through time and space, and among different methods of recording on Cyprus. These contextual studies are fundamental for understanding social, political, economic, and religious aspects of life on Cyprus during the second and first millennia B.C."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at a conference held in 1997 and sponsored by the Institute.
Table of contents: title: Problems and prospects in the study of script and seal use on Cyprus in the Bronze and Iron Ages / Joanna S. Smith; title: Marks on pots : patterns of use in the archaeological record at Enkomi / Nicolle E. Hirschfeld; title: Device, image, and coercion : the role of glyptic in the political economy of Late Bronze Age Cyprus / Jennifer M. Webb; title: The display and viewing of the syllabic inscriptions of Rantidi Sanctuary / Georgia Bonny Bazemore; title: The stamp seals of Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age / Andrew T. Reyes; title: Seals and writing in the ancient Near East and Cyprus / Barry B. Powell.