Ancient near eastern seals as markers of identity

Start - End

2011 - 2024 (ongoing)

Type

Multiresearcher project

Research group(s)

ARCHAEO - Archaeology

Ancient History

CRCG - Centre for Research on Culture and Gender

Tabgroup

Abstract

In the wake of the discovery of the archive of Ur-Utu, chief dirge singer of the temple of Annunītum in Sippar-Amnānum, the department of Assyriology has taken an interest in the sealing procedures on the Old Babylonian documents.

Drawing by E. Smekens

People

Supervisor(s)

Katrien De Graef

Department of Languages and Cultures

Postdoc(s)

Anne Goddeeris

Department of Languages and Cultures

Phd Student(s)

Astrid Verhulst

Researcher(s)

Michel Tanret

Department of Languages and Cultures

Publications

Officials of the Šamaš temple of Sippar as contract witnesses in the old Babylonian period(2011)
- Michel Tanret
- Guido Suurmeijer
The seal of the sanga. On the Old Babylonian sangas of Shamash of Sippar-Jahrurum and Sippar-Amnanum(2010)
- Michel Tanret
The seal of an official or an official seal? The use of court seals in Old Babylonian Susa and Haft Tepe(2018)
- Katrien De Graef
Sealing in Old Babylonian Nippur(2012)
- Anne Goddeeris
It's all relative: the expression of identity through Old Babylonian seals from Sippar based on the reconstruction of fourteen families and their seal use(2015)
- Astrid Verhulst