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Terence C. Mitchell, M.A. (Cantab.) 1954, was on the staff of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities (now Department of the Middle East), The British Museum from 1959-1989, for the last six years as Keeper (Head of Department).Ann Searight is draughtsman on the staff of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities (now Department of the Middle East), The British Museum from 1972 to the present. She participated in many excavations in the Near East.
This volume presents drawings of all the clear impressions of ancient Near Eastern stamp seals in The British Museum dating from the 9th to 2nd centuries B.C., arranged chronologically with full supporting bibliography, concordances, and indices.
CONTENTS Foreword, J. E. Curtis PART I: INTRODUCTION Introduction Museum Collections Bibliography PART II: CATALOGUE Mesopotamia Neo-Assyrian Period Neo-Babylonian Period Neo-Babylonian or Achaemenian Period Achaemenian Period Late Achaemenian / Early Hellenistic Hellenistic Period Macedonian Period Seleucid Period Palestine [796-821] Aramaic Inscriptions PART III: INDICES Index of Provenances Concordance of Text Publications Index of Serial Numbers Index of Collection Numbers Index of Subjects Represented Pictorial Typological Index Addenda et Corrigenda