essay
The seals and sealings
tell sabi abyad, the late neolithic settlement : report on the excavations of the university of amsterdam (1988) and the national museum of antiquities leiden (1991-1993) in syria • Istanbul • Published In 1996 • Pages: 339-401
By: Duistermaat, Kim.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Duistermaat describes the stamp seals (of which there are only a few) and the clay sealings that were found at the Tell. Some of the sealings did not have impressions and may have only been lids for containers. The other sealings had impressions that Duistermaat broke into 27 different design types. On the reverse, the sealings also show impressions of the containers they were attached to (basket, clay, stone, or leather) and of the ropes attached to these containers. Numerous illustrations of some of the sealing designs are provided. The sealings appear to have been saved after they were removed from their containers for administrative purposes, perhaps as a record of what had been received.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mnemonic devices
- Property in movables
- Cordage
- Mats and basketry
- Administration
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Halafian
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1988-1993
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Transitional Halaf to Early Halaf; 7200 BP-7000 BP (5200 BC-5000 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tell Sabi Abyad, northern Syria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kim Duistermaat
- For bibliographical references see document 10: Akkermans
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96220500
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Halaf culture