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Document Details : Title: Correlation of Sealings and Content on Proto-Elamite Tablets Subtitle: Four Unpublished Sealings in the National Museum of Iran Author(s): YEGANEH, Sepideh Jamshidi Journal: Iranica Antiqua Volume: 56 Date: 2021 Pages: 171-187 DOI: 10.2143/IA.56.0.3290274 Abstract : At the end of 4th millennium BCE, small clay tablets include economic records used for some centuries and played a significant role in administrative control. Sometimes these tablets also bear impressions of seals which comprise the most extensive dataset of imagery from this period. The importance of sealing is clear from its function and pictorial information, but on the economic tablets it has new significance allowing us to identify possible specific specializations and the responsible institutions for the economic document. In this study I focus on four unpublished sealings on four different Proto-Elamite clay tablets which are kept in the National Museum of Iran. At first, a description will be presented for each sample, which in turn will be used to group them according to both the content of the image and the text. Finally, I will use this sorting to propose a possible relation between each specialized administration unit and some scenes which they used for their seals. |
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