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Minor Hygieia. Iconographic Aspects of the Goddess in the Numismatic and Glyptic [PDF]

open access: yesLanx, 2012
This study aims at analyzing the different iconographic aspects of goddess Hygieia in Greek coinage and glyptic. For this purpose the coins and gems bearing the goddess’ representation have been divided into different iconographic typologies, inside ...
Lorenzo Fabbri
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A Comparative Study of the Sassanian Stamp Seal Designs with Drawings in Abd al-Rahman Sufi’s Sovar al-Kavakeb [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2023
Stamp seals are incredibly significant as a category of archeological finds because of their various motifs andfunctions, and inquiry into such glyptic evidence will help reconstruct different aspects of human life.
Sattar Khaledian, Hasan Arab
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The contest scene in EDIII Mesopotamian glyptic art [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2022
Four protagonists—two heroes, a bull-man and a human-headed bull—appear in Early Dynastic III contest scenes, engaged as a rule in guarding herbivores against predators.
Dorota Ławecka
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The appeal of subjugation: Artistic evidence of Pharaoh’s propaganda in the southern Levant during the 18th–20th Dynasties

open access: yesKervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2023
The article proposes an interpretative revisitation of a rather well-known and widespread iconographic motif in Egyptian art: the depiction of the Pharaoh striking his enemies.
Giulia Tucci
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Remarks on the Iconographic Motif of the Birdman in Mesopotamian Glyptic Art of the Third Millennium BC

open access: yesÉtudes et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2018
The iconographic motif of the birdman emerged in Mesopotamian glyptic art in the Early Dynastic period and disappeared at the end of the Akkadian period.
Dominika Majchrzak
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Photogrammetry and macro photography. The experience of the MUSINT II Project in the 3D digitizing process of small size archaeological artifacts

open access: yesStudies in Digital Heritage, 2017
The MUSINT II project was created to publicize and promote the Minoan glyptic, a little-known archaeological heritage. Its contents were designed to involve both specialists and a general public (adults and children).
Stefano Marziali, Giulia Dionisio
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Les « pierres gravées » d’Athéna. Quelques images de Minerve dans la glyptique romaine en Gaule

open access: yesPallas, 2016
This paper contains the analysis of seven intaglios, a cameo engraved on different stones, such as cornalina, plasma and prase, jasper, onyx and glass, and a amber ring dating from the first and second centuries AD and originating from different contexts
Hélène Guiraud
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Un inedito del Lyre Player Group da Tarquinia. Alcune considerazioni

open access: yesAristonothos, 2009
This brief note focuses on an unpublished seal of the Lyre Player Group found in Tarquinia. This particular class of seals, widespread in the basin of the Mediterranean and reaching the Italian Peninsula during the Orientalizing period, represents a good
Enrico Giovanelli
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Un ignoto incisore di gemme: lo scultore e ceroplasta Francesco Pozzi

open access: yesMDCCC 1800, 2020
This study resolves the rebus of identifying the unknown engraver not mentioned in any text of glyptic, nor testified by casts of gems and glass pastes, which signs POZZI three intaglios and two cameos, almost all unpublished, and which demonstrate ...
Tassinari, Gabriella
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Leonesse officianti e animali acrobati? Riflessioni su alcuni mischwesen minoici e micenei alla luce delle evidenze epigrafiche tebane

open access: yesMantichora, 2020
In recent years, an increasing number of scholars has suggested that the zoonyms recurrent in the recipient position in some Thebes tablets could be reasonably interpreted as ritual titles; these may refer to persons dressed as animals and engaged in ...
Matilde Civitillo
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