essay

The evidence of the sealings

Excavations at Tell Brak • 2 • Published In 2001 • Pages: 121-140

By: Oates, Joan.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

The seals and sealing from Tell Brak constitute not only one of the most important excavated colletions but the largest published body of third-millennium material from northern Mesopotamia and Syria.The purpose of this article is not to republish these seals, which have been extensively treated in the volume by D. Matthews (1997), but to focus on the evidence they provide both for the dating of the site and for its administration. The illustrations published here include selected examples of the many styles represented at the site, and some general representation of the different uses to which such seals were put (p. 121).

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Property in movables

Visual arts

Mnemonic devices

Accounting

Numeration

Chronologies and culture sequences

traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

Akkadian

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

2009

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.

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

John Beierle; 2008

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

no date

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

4334-4112 BP (2334-2112 BC)

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Tell Brak, Mesopotamia

NotesAdditional notes

Joan Oates

For bibliographical references see document 13: Oates

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

00303945

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian/Excavations (Archaeology) Iraq/Mitanni (Ancient kingdom)/Dayr al-Zawr (Syria) Antiquities