Catalogue Of Ancient Near Eastern Seals In The Ashmolean Museum The Prehistoric Stamp Seals

Download or read book Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum: The prehistoric stamp seals written by Ashmolean Museum and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1966 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book catalogs the outstanding collection of stamp seals at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, covering 246 seals up to the Seleucid period. The late Buchanan's catalogue entries have been combined with fully referenced introductory sections written by Moorey, and each seal is illustrated twice to show the design and the shape of its back, crucial to any typological system. Also included is Buchanan's illustrated system for the terminology of stamp seals.