Dominique Collon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 709377 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dominique Collon |
| NOMBRES | Dominique |
| APELLIDO | Collon |
| FIRMA | COLLON D |
| AFILIACIONES | British Museum |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Cylinder and stamp seals from Tatarlı Höyük
In this article, 13 cylinder and stamp seals are examined. They were found at Tatarlı Höyük during the 2008–2012 excavations. The interesting and significant collection of cylinder and stamp seals of the second millennium BC reveals the importance of Tatarlı Höyük in the archaeology of Kizzuwatna. Stamp seals from earlier periods were found out of context and shed light on prehistoric Tatarlı Höyük. We believe that Tatarlı Höyük is ancient Lawaza…
Dr Lee's Collection of Cylinder Seals
Dr Lee was known as a collector of cylinder seals only because six of them were published by Cullimore in 1843. Now twenty seals have been rediscovered in the Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury, and have been registered and recorded. Some of the preliminary drawings made for Cullimore's publication have also survived and have thrown light on the way the seals were recorded for publication in the early 1840s. Here a full catalogue and asse…
Kayalidere 1965 David Hawkins' caricatures
This Festschrift in honour of David Hawkins has provided the opportunity of publishing a set of caricatures by David, recording some of the participants in the excavations at Kayalıdere in eastern Turkey in 1965.
Getting it wrong in Assyria
In 1989 Muzahem Mahmud Hussein found the second of four rich tombs in the harem section of the NorthWest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud. The tomb contained the burials of Yaba, queen of Tiglathpileser III, and of Atalia, queen of Sargon II, and the tomb can therefore be dated to the last decades of the eighth century BC. This paper concerns three pairs of bracelets from Tomb II, and focuses in particular on the strange iconography of one of…
The Queen under attack—A rejoinder
The object once known as the Burney Relief , and now renamed The Queen of the Night (hereinafter referred to as the Queen) is a mould-made plaque of straw-tempered clay (Fig. 1). Integral with the rectangular background (49.5 × 37 cm) is a nude figure who wears the horned headdress of a Mesopotamian goddess, has lowered wings, dewclaws and bird's talons, holds the divine rod-and-ring symbol in each hand, stands on the backs of two addorsed lions,…
Le sceau d'Uluburun KW 1463
Around 1 300 BC a ship sank at Uluburun, off the south coast of Turkey. Among the treasures excavated in the wreck were nine cylinder seals. One of these was exceptionally small, very finely cut, and had gold caps, one of which was found. Its iconography is unusual, but one of the figures appears on the Baal au Foudre stele and on a ritual stand from Ugarit. This paper will focus on the identity of this figure, on the meaning of the subject depic…
Syria-Palestine
Narrative art
Ancient Near East
Frit
Ancient Near East
Ornament and pattern in the ancient Near East and Egypt
Sarcophagus
Anatolia, ancient
Stele
Iran, ancient
Ornament and pattern
Hurrian
Gardens in the ancient world and Byzantine period
Throne
Mesopotamia
Oxus Treasure
Mesopotamia
Altar
Door
The Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun
The Institute of Nautical Archaeology in 1986 completed its third excavation campaign at Ulu Burun, near Kaş, Turkey. New finds include a unique gold scarab of Nefertiti that may provide confirmation for a recent theory that she served as coregent sometime during the latter years of Akhenaten's reign; a gold medallion with a nude goddess holding a gazelle in each hand, as well as other typically Canaanite gold medallions; a rock-crystal cylinder …
Kilise Tepe 1994
The Göksu valley (Fig. 1), which furnishes one of the two main routes from Turkey's southern shore through the Taurus to the Konya plain and the rest of the central plateau, must be deemed one of the country's national treasures. The clear turquoise ribbon of the river threads its way south-eastwards from high in the mountains west of Ermenek to reach the Mediterranean at Silifke, or rather at the mouth of the delta it has created to the south of…
The introduction of the lapidary engraving wheel in Mesopotamia
Scanning electron microscopy provides an insight into the lapidary techniques of the ancient Near East. Engraved features on quartz cylinder seals have been compared to those produced experimentally, leading to a radical reassessment of the date for the introduction of the engraving wheel
Hunting and Shooting
When I was still a student, Dr. Barnett gave me the part-time job of sorting the cylinder seal collection in the Western Asiatic Department of the British Museum, of which he was then Keeper. Now, some twenty years later, the catalogue of Akkadian to Ur III seals, which this led to, has just appeared, and this article is based on two “firsts” (as S. N. Kramer would put it) to which my attention was drawn while I was studying the seals. I have fou…
Cylinder and stamp seals from Tatarlı Höyük
In this article, 13 cylinder and stamp seals are examined. They were found at Tatarlı Höyük during the 2008–2012 excavations. The interesting and significant collection of cylinder and stamp seals of the second millennium BC reveals the importance of Tatarlı Höyük in the archaeology of Kizzuwatna. Stamp seals from earlier periods were found out of context and shed light on prehistoric Tatarlı Höyük. We believe that Tatarlı Höyük is ancient Lawaza…
Dance in Ancient Mesopotamia
Dance depictions from the "heartland of cities" hold a particular fascination for those who are interested in this subject. Prehistoric pottery from Mesopotamia is known for its dynamic images of swirling dancers. Many of the dance positions shown on ancient ceramics and cylinder seals are echoed by the ceremonial dances of today's Iraqi tribespeople. From ancient motif to modern ethnography, the author, who is a well-known authority on Mesopotam…
A New Look at the Chronology of Alalakh Level VII
In a recent article Dr Nadav Na'aman suggested that two rulers called Yarimlim and two called Ammitakumma succeeded each other in alternation during the period of the Level VII archive at Alalakh. This reconstruction of the chronology fails, as do all previous reconstructions, to take into account the seal impressions on the tablet envelopes. These seal impressions have now been published and the chronology which they enabled me to reconstruct is…
The Life and Death of Carthage
The Smiting God
BRONZE PROVENANT DE LA COLLECTION LEON POMERANCE ACTUELLEMENT AU METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. CETTE STATUETTE REPRESENTE UN DIEU DEBOUT PORTANT UNE HACHE OU UNE MASSE DANS LA POSITION DE LA MARCHE SUR UN LION COUCHE. LA COIFFURE RESSEMBLE A LA COURONNE BLANCHE DE HAUTE EGYPTE. PAR ANALOGIE. CETTE FIGURINE POURRAIT ETRE DATEE DE LA 1 MOITIE DU XIV S. ET SON LIEU DE FABRICATION SE TROUVERAIT AU LEVANT ENTRE RAS SHAMRA ET MEGIDDO. C'EST LE SEUL EXEMP…
A Bronze Chariot Group from the Levant in Paris
Ivory
In her Fauna of Ancient Mesopotamia, Mrs. van Buren pointed out that if elephants in the Middle East did not become extinct till about 800 B.C., then it was strange that there are not more representations of them. There is a lapis amulet from Kish which is rather indistinct, a miniature vase of sandstone and quartz decorated with a row of three elephants which was bought in Mosul, two cylinder seals which are related to seals of the Indus Valley …
A New Look at the Chronology of Alalakh Level VII
In a recent article Dr Nadav Na'aman suggested that two rulers called Yarimlim and two called Ammitakumma succeeded each other in alternation during the period of the Level VII archive at Alalakh. This reconstruction of the chronology fails, as do all previous reconstructions, to take into account the seal impressions on the tablet envelopes. These seal impressions have now been published and the chronology which they enabled me to reconstruct is…
Some Bucket Handles
As a student of Seton Lloyd's, I learnt at first hand about the Diyala excavations in which he had taken part, and this was a memorable experience. Among the many remarkable finds he made at Tell Asmar was a metal hoard of Early Dynastic III date. In the south-east corner of Room E 16:35 of the earlier Northern Palace, plastered into a hole in the wall and hidden behind a later cross-wall, was a pot and within it there were between 60 and 80 copp…
Hunting and Shooting
When I was still a student, Dr. Barnett gave me the part-time job of sorting the cylinder seal collection in the Western Asiatic Department of the British Museum, of which he was then Keeper. Now, some twenty years later, the catalogue of Akkadian to Ur III seals, which this led to, has just appeared, and this article is based on two “firsts” (as S. N. Kramer would put it) to which my attention was drawn while I was studying the seals. I have fou…
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève
Some Cylinder Seals from Tell Mohammed Arab
The site of Tell Mohammed Arab was excavated by the British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq, under the direction of Dr. Michael Roaf, as part of the Eski Mosul Saddam Dam rescue project (Roaf, 1983a, 1983b, 1984). Seven cylinder seals and two impressions on pottery were found in the Middle Assyrian levels and one Neo Assyrian seal came from a Hellenistic pit.Two main areas of Middle Assyrian occupation were excavated. In the Central Area three …
The Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun
The Institute of Nautical Archaeology in 1986 completed its third excavation campaign at Ulu Burun, near Kaş, Turkey. New finds include a unique gold scarab of Nefertiti that may provide confirmation for a recent theory that she served as coregent sometime during the latter years of Akhenaten's reign; a gold medallion with a nude goddess holding a gazelle in each hand, as well as other typically Canaanite gold medallions; a rock-crystal cylinder …
Near Eastern Seals
A rich source of pictorial information about the Ancient Near East comes to us in the form of miniature reliefs, created from the impressions made in clay by tiny engraved stone seals. Originally used for sealing goods and writing tablets, these seals now provide important evidence for administrative practices, technical development, and long-distance trade. The designs themselves record religious beliefs, mythical characters, architectural style…
First Impressions
British Museum Excavations at Nimrud and Balawat in 1989
In autumn 1989 a team from the British Museum worked at Nimrud and Balawat, resuming an association of the Museum with these two sites reaching back nearly a century and a half. At Nimrud work was confined to the excavation of a single room in Fort Shalmaneser (T20), while at Balawat a small trench was opened in that part of the mound where Hormuzd Rassam is believed to have found the two sets of Assyrian bronze gates in 1878. Originally it was i…
The Availability of Raw Materials for near Eastern Cylinder Seals during the Akkadian, Post Akaddian and Ur III Periods
Studies of the materials of cylinder seals (Sax, 1986, 1991b, and in preparation a, b, c) from Western Asia throughout the 3000 years or so of their production (c. 3500 B.C. to c. 400 B.c.) have shown that there was a chronological evolution in material usage. The seals are chiefly composed of simple mineral assemblages and the selection of particular raw materials appears to have been influenced by such properties as hardness and colour. A gener…
A recut Old Babylonian seal from Area I of Tell Kazel
Collon D. A recut Old Babylonian seal from Area I of Tell Kazel. In: Syria. Tome 71 fascicule 3-4, 1994. pp. 347-348
Kilise Tepe 1994
The Göksu valley (Fig. 1), which furnishes one of the two main routes from Turkey's southern shore through the Taurus to the Konya plain and the rest of the central plateau, must be deemed one of the country's national treasures. The clear turquoise ribbon of the river threads its way south-eastwards from high in the mountains west of Ermenek to reach the Mediterranean at Silifke, or rather at the mouth of the delta it has created to the south of…
First Impressions
The Glazed Steatite Glyptic Style
Ricerche sui sigilli a cilindro Vicino-Orientali del periodo di Uruk/Jemdet Nasr
First catch your ostrich
Reflexion sur les autruches, animal largement present a l'ouest de l'Euphrate et deja atteste sous les Sumeriens et les Akkadiens. Les oeufs d'autruche etaient souvent decores, utilises dans la fabrication de medicaments, et faisaient l'objet d'echanges a longue distance. L'auteur presente un catalogue de sceaux et d'objets metalliques graves representant des autruches
Der Affe in der altorientalischen Kunst
Lapis Lazuli From the East
The article deals with the interpretation of two images on the lapis lazuli stamp seal from the Western Asiatic Department of Antiquities in the British Museum. The author compares the images with scenes on Shahdad "standard", on bifacial disc from eastern Iran and on fragments of steatite vases from Louvre and the British Museum, and comes to the conclusion that the figure with a sidelock is a male personage, the other one is a female. Links wit…
Lapis Lazuli From the East
The article deals with the interpretation of two images on the lapis lazuli stamp seal from the Western Asiatic Department of Antiquities in the British Museum. The author compares the images with scenes on Shahdad "standard", on bifacial disc from eastern Iran and on fragments of steatite vases from Louvre and the British Museum, and comes to the conclusion that the figure with a sidelock is a male personage, the other one is a female. Links wit…
The Early Development of the Lapidary Engraving Wheel in Mesopotamia
Traditional views on the development of rotary motion were outlined by Childe (1954). He envisaged a progressive development of a concept that had originated in prehistoric times. Thus, perforated artefacts composed of shell and soft stone from Upper Palaeolithic levels yielded the earliest evidence for hand-held drills (Semenov 1964: 74–8). At least seven thousand years later, during the second half of the fourth millennium, potters in several p…
The introduction of the lapidary engraving wheel in Mesopotamia
Scanning electron microscopy provides an insight into the lapidary techniques of the ancient Near East. Engraved features on quartz cylinder seals have been compared to those produced experimentally, leading to a radical reassessment of the date for the introduction of the engraving wheel
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