International conference organized by the project "Annotated Corpus of West Asian Imagery: Cylinder Seals" (ACAWAI-CS) under the direction of Elisa Roßberger at Freie Universität Berlin.

Three days filled with exiting presentations and lively discussion on ancient West Asian seals and sealings: Thanks to all speakers, participants, and helping hands!!!

Programm

Monday, July 24, 2023: Ongoing Projects

Elisa Roßberger (FU Berlin): Welcome

Elisa Roßberger, Anna Kurmangaliev & M. Andrea Valsecchi Gillmeister: Three years of work on the ‘Annotated Corpus of Ancient West Asian Imagery: Cylinder Seals’

Christoph Uehlinger (Universität Zürich): Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant: A progress report five months before closure—and thinking ahead

Ariane Thomas (Louvre Paris): A review and prospects on the Louvre's ancient Near Eastern glyptic collection

Agnete Lassen & Elizabeth Knott (Yale Babylonian Collection; presenting online):
Update on Seal Digitization Efforts at the Yale Babylonian Collection

Laurie Pearce (UC Berkeley) & Ron Wallenfels (New York University; both presenting online):
1) Achieving text and image integration: HBTIN and AUWE 19 2.0; 2) On the reuse of seals in the Hellenistic Near East

Jacob Dahl (Oxford; presenting online): Recent advances in the capture, storage, and dissemination of images and metadata of cylinder seals in the CDLI

Oya Topçuoğlu (Northwestern University Chicago; presenting online):
Going once, going twice, sold! The online market in Mesopotamian cylinder seals

Katrien de Graef (Ghent University): Personal seals and sealing persons. Identifying seals, their owners and users on Old Babylonian Sippar tablets

Tuesday, July 25, 2023: Current Research

Clélia Paladre (Louvre Paris):
Revisiting the Proto-Elamite phenomenon and its glyptic productions

Adelheid Otto (LMU München): More fragments of officialdom from Fara: The 2022 sealings from the Early Dynastic II 'Seal Pit'

Rudi Mayr (New York): Servant seals of the Akkadian and Neo-Sumerian periods: Typology and terminology

Zena Awad (LMU München): The representation of the figure of the 'Suppliant Goddess' on Syrian cylinder seals in the second millennium B.C.: A new perspective

Zsombor Földi (LMU München): Seal inscriptions written on clay tablets: Drafts or something else?

Elena Devecchi (University of Turin): Sharing seals in Kassite Babylonia: Some case-studies

Diana Stein (Birkbeck London): Mittanian glyptic by any other name

Marta Luciani (Universität Wien): The Nuzi bullae collection at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East: Report on current research

Ruben Davtyan (Universität Halle): Mitanni Seals in South Caucasus: Image and Context

Nedal Haj Darwich (London): Hybrid beings in the glyptic of Syria, Upper Mesopotamia and Assyria in the Late Bronze Age

Dominik Bonatz (FU Berlin): The Imagery of Middle Assyrian Seals: A Semiotic Approach

Zoltan Niederreiter (ELTE Budapest): A Particular Group of Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seals

Tiffany Ftaimi (Universität Heidelberg): Insights into Heaven: Deities and Ritual Scenes in the Iron Age

Vanessa Boschloos (Ghent University): Levantine and Egyptian stamp seals in Byblos: current research

Wednesday, July 26, 2023: Digital Perspectives

Albert Dietz (LMU München): Is Old School still the Best School? Analysing Picture Elements in Western Asian Seal Research the Traditional Way

Alessandro di Ludovico & Sergio Camiz (Rome): Attempt to Optimise Information through Quantitative Study of a Small Glyptic Dataset

Silvana di Paolo (CNR Rome):  Image Recognition Tools and Seals: Seeking Knowledge and Meaning

Yvonne Helmholz (FU Berlin): Sealing Practices in Archaic Uruk: 3-D-Modeling of a Broken Context

Hubert Mara (Universität Halle): 3D Forensic for Seal Imprints and Clay Tablets

Martina Trognitz (ÖAW Wien): Links everywhere: Linked Open Data for Aegean seals with Wikidata