Principles of Composition in Near Eastern Glyptic of the Later Second Millennium B.C.

13 Glyptik Adad-nirari al-Gailani Werr 1980 Alalakh arms of type Assyrian seals Atlantid Scene Beran CANES Central tradition Choga Zanbil Clercq Collon Collon AOAT Collon BAR combinations Common Mitannian context cylinder seals Cypriote dated designs Drilled style Elaborate Elamite Elam Elamite facing left facing right Failaka Fakhariyah Fan Scene figures with arms flounced fourteenth century hard stone Hittite HSS XIV human impressions inscription Interceding Goddess Intercessor Iraq Iraq 39 Kassite seals Kassite style King Kirkuk kneeling kudurrus Kurigalzu lion Louvre Marcopoli Mayer-Opificius 1986 Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian Mitannian Mitannian seals Newell Nimrud Nippur Northern tradition nude female Nuzi occurs Old Babylonian Old Syrian Philadelphia Poor convention Porada posture pseudo-Kassite rare reign rhomb Rimah Saporetti 1979 Saushtatar seated figure Second Kassite Seidl Shalmaneser Sippar Subeidi Susa symbols tablet Thebes Third Kassite thirteenth century three-figure scenes tree Tukulti-Ninurta two-figure scenes Ugarit winged disk