A new reference work on seal-amulets. From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: October 1, 1997| Author: Ward, William A. | COPYRIGHT 1997 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Based on two decades of research, Othmar Keel's introductory volume to his corpus of seal-amulets discovered in Palestine offers an encyclopedic reference work on this genre of artifact. While concerned primarily with material from Palestine, this volume represents a landmark in the investigation of scarabs and other seal-amulets that generally also applies to Egyptian evidence. Wide-ranging essays on typology, design motifs, materials, and especially the local Palestinian production of these...

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