Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter

Author(s): Mark B. Garrison, Margaret Cool Root.

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This is the first volume (text and plates) of the analytically legible seals (ca. 1,162) retrieved through many thousands of full or partial impressions preserved on the 2,087 Elamite administrative tablets recovered during the 1930s excavations at Persepolis, Iran, and published by Richard T. Hallock in 1969. The tablets are dated by date formulae in the texts to the years 509-494 B.C. in the reign of Darius the Great. The remaining and forthcoming two volumes are entitled: Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Volume II: Images of Human Activity Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets and Volume III: Animals, Creatures, Plants, and Geometric Devices. Volume I introduces the archive and documents the 312 seals of heroic encounter (retrieved via 1,970 impressions) with high quality composite drawings and a separate volume of 291 halftone and line plate illustrations presented at a scale of 2:1. Entries provide commentary on administrative, social, stylistic, and iconographical features of the seals as well as systematic analysis of seal application patterns. The thirty-four seal inscriptions are presented by Charles E. Jones. Twelve appendices richly synthesize formal and iconographical data and integrate the seals with their associated texts. This major corpus offers extraordinary new material for the study of art and social history in the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Charts
List of Figures
List of References

Introduction
Catalog of Images of Heroic Encounter

Appendix One: Concordance of Seals to Tablets in Volume I
Appendix Two: Provisional List of All Subsumed Hallock PFS Numbers (Volumes I-III)
Appendix Three: Summary Data on Seal Dimensions for Volume I
Appendix Four: Stamp Seals in Volume I Grouped by Apparent Contour of Seal Face
Appendix Five: Inscribed Seals in Volume I by Language or Script
Appendix Six: Distribution of Seals in Volume I by Stylistic Categories
Appendix Seven: Animals and Composite Creature on Seals In Volume I
Appendix Eight: Iconographic Features on Seals in Volume I
Appendix Nine: Personal Names
Appendix Ten: Occupational Designations
Appendix Eleven: Geographical Names
Appendix Twelve: Concordance of PFS to Cat. No. in Volume I
Indices

Volume 2:

Introduction
List of Abbreviations
List of Plates
Plates