The Alalakh Cylinder Seals: A new catalogue of the actual seals excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley at Tell Atchana, and from neighbouring sites on the Syrian-Turkish border

Collon, Dominique

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“…The key principle in applying δ 18 O and 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios to the study of past mobility is a comparison between the isotopic composition in the tooth enamel of excavated individuals and the…”

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Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey during the 2nd millennium BC: Integration of isotopic and genomic evidence

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The Middle and Late Bronze Age, a period roughly spanning the 2nd millennium BC (ca. 2000–1200 BC) in the Near East, is frequently referred to as the first ‘international age’, characterized by intense and far-reaching contacts between different entities from the eastern Mediterranean to the Near East and beyond. In a large-scale tandem study of stable isotopes and ancient DNA of individuals excavated at Tell Atchana (Alalakh, located in Hatay, Turkey), we explored the role of mobility at the capital of a regional kingdom, named Mukish during the Late Bronze Age, which spanned the Amuq Valley and some areas beyond. We generated strontium and oxygen isotope data from dental enamel for 53 individuals and 77 individuals, respectively, and added ancient DNA data of 10 newly sequenced individuals to a dataset of 27 individuals published in 2020. Additionally, we improved the DNA coverage of one individual from this 2020 dataset. The DNA data revealed a very homogeneous gene pool. This picture of an overwhelmingly local ancestry was consistent with the evidence of local upbringing in most of the individuals indicated by the isotopic data, where only five were found to be non-local. High levels of contact, trade, and exchange of ideas and goods in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, therefore, seem not to have translated into high levels of individual mobility detectable at Tell Atchana.

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Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey during the 2nd millennium BC: Integration of isotopic and genomic evidence

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“…29, 35, 47, 49, 73, 131, 177, 218, 336, 338, 370, 388; three were published by Frankfort (1939: pl. 40b, 40f, 41d), 9 For a comprehensive study of the seals recovered at Alalakh, see Collon 1982. Relevant seals and one impression were also excavated at Alalakh after World War II, (seals: Woolley 1955: nos.…”

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“…My research started under the aegis of Edith Porada (see, for example, Porada 1993: 575, n. 40), with whom I conferred closely while forming the corpus, and she was able to attend my first lecture on this subject in April 1990 as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's colloquium for fellows. In the end, this doctoral study was completed under the guidance of Dominique, who had studied with Dr. Porada in the late 1960s and defended her Columbia dissertation in 1971 (Collon 1975), thus she returned to New York thirty years later for the other side of the table. A few of the seals discussed here and in the dissertation were included in Dominique's book First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East (Collon 1987;2005).…”

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“…In the end, this doctoral study was completed under the guidance of Dominique, who had studied with Dr. Porada in the late 1960s and defended her Columbia dissertation in 1971 (Collon 1975), thus she returned to New York thirty years later for the other side of the table. A few of the seals discussed here and in the dissertation were included in Dominique's book First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East (Collon 1987;2005).…”

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Tracing the Acquisition History of Some Old Syrian Popular Style Cylinder Seals

Porter¹

2015

Iraq

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Examples of Middle Bronze Age cylinder seals, categorized today as “Old Syrian popular style” have been documented since the mid-nineteenth century, albeit usually without any dating or provenance information. This particular subset of the vast array of ancient Near Eastern glyptic has recently been studied by the author and an acquisition history identified for many of them. Here the disparate paths that brought some of these seals into museums and private collections are explored to demonstrate, not only the vagaries of where these eminently portable objects end up, but to highlight the importance for modern scholarship of documenting such histories.

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“…Scenes involving single or multiple worshippers, a highly stylized "bouquet tree," and horned animals in various juxtapositions are common in the Gulf and in Mesopotamia. At Nuzi they occur throughout the Nuzi Period but are most common in the second generation there (72). The dating of the Nuzi archives is still tenuous but a period c. 1450-1330 B.C.…”

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Pottery, cylinder seals, and stone vessels from the cemeteries of al‐Hajjar, al‐Maqsha and Hamad Town on Bahrain

Denton¹

1994

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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The Alalakh Cylinder Seals: A new catalogue of the actual seals excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley at Tell Atchana, and from neighbouring sites on the Syrian-Turkish border

Cited by 10 publications

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Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey during the 2nd millennium BC: Integration of isotopic and genomic evidence

Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey during the 2nd millennium BC: Integration of isotopic and genomic evidence

Tracing the Acquisition History of Some Old Syrian Popular Style Cylinder Seals

Pottery, cylinder seals, and stone vessels from the cemeteries of al‐Hajjar, al‐Maqsha and Hamad Town on Bahrain

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