1 20 20 https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/b13571793a5bebf2bd1fe94b3461857b.png bc72185032c4be8794662fc1c015754c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_21_O_460"></iframe> Site Karkemish Area C East Level Phase B Locus F.11576 Context Date Late Bronze IIB Sealing Measures l. 3.1; w. 2.1; th. 1.9 cm Context Type "Seal House" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.21.O.460 Description An account of the resource Complete hanging sealing, drop-shaped, with a pierced hole on the top for the string encased into the lump of clay, from the eastern room in the Seal-house. Hanging sealings (or bulla in literature), cone-, pyramid-, drop- and cylinder-shaped, are mainly known from Hittite contexts in Anatolia (see Cat. no. 26), secured to written documents by means of tiny strings (Herbordt 2005: 33-34, fig. 18.a-b; Waal 2023: 138-142). The sealing presents, on one side and the base, four impressions of the same signet ring bearing the owner’s name, Piradu, both in cuneiform and hieroglyphic writing, respectively [pi/pí]-ra-du and pi (L66)+ra/i (L383)-tu (L88), accompanied by his title, AULA (L254) “loyal (noble)man” and likely profession, MAGNUS?.X?. While the name Piradu, probably of Hurrian origin, is common in Middle Assyrian sources, it is possible that we are here dealing with the same person attested at Emar, if the Mutri-Teshub of two documents from that site (Beyer 2001: 136, B46, Msk 73.1019 and Arnaud 1986: 261, Msk 7441) is actually one and the same person, because in one Piradu is mentioned and in the other one Ewri-Teshub, a diviner whose seal is known both from Karkemish (with Sunaili and Zinni I; cf. Cat. nos. 1, 4 and see Peker 2023a: 128 no. 7, figs. 6-7) and Emar (Beyer 2001: 56-57, A14). https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/271c4372b05567101614459be1a46083.png 43bd7e10139def0ab22c4fac0aae746c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_20_O_284"></iframe> Site Karkemish Area C East Locus F.11109 Context Date Early Iron I Sealing Measures h. 1.7; w. 3.6; th. 1.2 cm Context Type Lower Palace Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.20.O.284 Description An account of the resource The study of the back of these sealings reveals that three of them were originally fastened to a cylindrical wooden-peg (closing a door or a lid) with at least four laps of twisted string around it (Cat. nos. 27-29), as shown by the concave surface on the reverse and the negative impressions of string (four laps in Cat. no. 27, two in Cat. no. 29, while Cat. no. 28 presents the string imprint on the obverse, probably as the return part of the string). One sealing had been likely secured to a wooden box or lid, as indicated by the negative trace of flat wooden strips on the base (Cat. no. 30). Traces of fingerprints are visible on the obverse of two sealings (Cat. nos. 27-28). They were found within a deposit of one hundred sealings spread over the floor of room L.11115 of an Iron I building, built immediately above the Late Bronze II Seal-house, of which it seems to have kept the same administrative functions. 67 very fragmentary sealings had been impressed with the same circular stamp seal (the original diameter of which was 3.5 cm, see the graphic reconstruction) and Cat. nos. 27-30 each show some parts of its iconography and legend. A female figure holding a rod (a symbol of authority) is depicted standing with extended arms, the right one bent upwards. The details are rendered in a very fine manner, such as the lips and the ear. The woman seems to wear a hairy cap (unless it is a render of hair with a head-band) and has a strand of long hair on the back. The long robe, with a belt and a tassel at the bottom, has sleeves and its fabric is rendered with vertical strokes. There are two women’s names on the reconstruction of this seal. Behind the figure, there is the standard hieroglyphic Iron Age Seal Inscription formula (but without phonetic complements for the personal names in genitive), possibly the earliest attested one. Its transcription runs: zi/a-wa/i BONUS2 SIGILLUM ma-ti-i(a) BONUS2 FEMINA, and in front of the figure: DARE-ma-á-la-zu(wa/i) BONUS2 FEMINA. The translation is: This good seal (is of) Matiya, the wealthy woman / (and of) Piyama-Al(l)anzu(wa) the wealthy woman. Matiya is attested both as a male name in cuneiform sources (Laroche 1966: 790; Gelb, Purves and MacRae 1943: 96-97), as well as a female one at Nuzi (Gelb, Purves and MacRae 1943: 97). Al(l)anzu(wa) is a goddess, one of the granddaughters of Hebat (Hawkins 2024: 14, cf. YAZILIKAYA no. 45; Hutter 2021: 185). The administrative prominence of the personage(s) using this seal (either one of the seal’s owners or a person acting on behalf of them) is shown by the simple fact that two thirds of the sealings in the deposit were impressed by this seal. That the seal belongs to two women is further proof of the economic role which women could have in Hittite society during the Empire (Weeden 2026) and - we have now learnt - also in the post-Empire periods. https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/4a281f344212a006bf1c7f0ab8c93722.png db96c7632a47ecfe503a3a7dbcc4d7af Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_20_O_283"></iframe> Site Karkemish Area C East Locus F.11109 Context Date Early Iron I Sealing Measures l. 4.3; w. 4.2; th. 1.5 cm Context Type Lower Palace Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.20.O.283 Description An account of the resource The study of the back of these sealings reveals that three of them were originally fastened to a cylindrical wooden-peg (closing a door or a lid) with at least four laps of twisted string around it (Cat. nos. 27-29), as shown by the concave surface on the reverse and the negative impressions of string (four laps in Cat. no. 27, two in Cat. no. 29, while Cat. no. 28 presents the string imprint on the obverse, probably as the return part of the string). One sealing had been likely secured to a wooden box or lid, as indicated by the negative trace of flat wooden strips on the base (Cat. no. 30). Traces of fingerprints are visible on the obverse of two sealings (Cat. nos. 27-28). They were found within a deposit of one hundred sealings spread over the floor of room L.11115 of an Iron I building, built immediately above the Late Bronze II Seal-house, of which it seems to have kept the same administrative functions. 67 very fragmentary sealings had been impressed with the same circular stamp seal (the original diameter of which was 3.5 cm, see the graphic reconstruction) and Cat. nos. 27-30 each show some parts of its iconography and legend. A female figure holding a rod (a symbol of authority) is depicted standing with extended arms, the right one bent upwards. The details are rendered in a very fine manner, such as the lips and the ear. The woman seems to wear a hairy cap (unless it is a render of hair with a head-band) and has a strand of long hair on the back. The long robe, with a belt and a tassel at the bottom, has sleeves and its fabric is rendered with vertical strokes. There are two women’s names on the reconstruction of this seal. Behind the figure, there is the standard hieroglyphic Iron Age Seal Inscription formula (but without phonetic complements for the personal names in genitive), possibly the earliest attested one. Its transcription runs: zi/a-wa/i BONUS2 SIGILLUM ma-ti-i(a) BONUS2 FEMINA, and in front of the figure: DARE-ma-á-la-zu(wa/i) BONUS2 FEMINA. The translation is: This good seal (is of) Matiya, the wealthy woman / (and of) Piyama-Al(l)anzu(wa) the wealthy woman. Matiya is attested both as a male name in cuneiform sources (Laroche 1966: 790; Gelb, Purves and MacRae 1943: 96-97), as well as a female one at Nuzi (Gelb, Purves and MacRae 1943: 97). Al(l)anzu(wa) is a goddess, one of the granddaughters of Hebat (Hawkins 2024: 14, cf. YAZILIKAYA no. 45; Hutter 2021: 185). The administrative prominence of the personage(s) using this seal (either one of the seal’s owners or a person acting on behalf of them) is shown by the simple fact that two thirds of the sealings in the deposit were impressed by this seal. That the seal belongs to two women is further proof of the economic role which women could have in Hittite society during the Empire (Weeden 2026) and - we have now learnt - also in the post-Empire periods. https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/5d2db5e4e6101e7dbf86b422f85debf4.png 07591bb113fe1e78e0df5c4f60d88744 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_19_O_512"></iframe> Site Karkemish Area C East Locus F.10236 Context Date Early Iron I Sealing Measures l. 2.5; w. 2.0; th. 1.4 cm Context Type Lower Palace Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.19.O.512 Description An account of the resource Complete hanging sealing, drop-shaped with a circular hole on the top left by the encasement of a double rope and with flattened sides. It bears five impressions of a stamp seal, one for each of the four sides and one on the base, alongside fingerprints. The seal impressions show possible geometric motifs on both sides of a dividing line, although they are too faint for a more accurate interpretation. Despite the lack of traces of the original carrier, it is possible to suggest that the hanging sealing was knotted to a written document, perhaps a wooden board, based on typological comparisons from the region (Waal 2023: 138-142; 2026: 747-748). This follows the Anatolian tradition of the Late Bronze age of sealing wooden writing boards and cuneiform tablets with strings and lumps of clay, testified by the large deposits of sealings from Nişantepe (Herbordt 2005; 2011) and Kayalıpınar (Maner et al. 2024: 442-443; see also Cat. no. 10). This practice appears in substitution of the Mesopotamian tradition of impressing the seals directly on the clay of the cuneiform documents (Waal 2026: 752-753). The presence of this type of sealing in the Iron I levels provides further evidence for the continuity of administrative practices at Karkemish after the fall of the Hittite empire (one may perhaps also compare a signet ring impression on a sealing from a layer, Cat. no. 11). https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/a778829a43c395d5aedd86155be0271b.png af90ebd27b89d52a10fe6e46c039c1b1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_19_O_113"></iframe> Site Karkemish Area C East Locus F.9640 Context Date Early Iron I Sealing Measures l. 2.7; w. 2.2; th. 1.3 cm Context Type Lower Palace Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.19.O.113 Description An account of the resource Fragmentary sealing applied to a container, either a wooden box or a flat lid. The reverse of the sealing is flat and shows the negative trace of wooden slats, while along the broken section there are negative marks of the rope and knot fastening the container, against which the lump of clay was placed. An impression of a cylinder seal is only partially preserved: it shows a standing male figure facing to the right with stretched arms and finely rendered fingers (cf. the posture of the personage in Cat. 27-30) and a thick strand of hair on the nape, which is very similar to Cat. no. 25. Of the name of the seal’s owner, written hieroglyphically, only the last syllable is readable: á (L19)-[...]-sa (L415), with -sa being the genitive case for the Iron Age Seal Inscription formula “This seal is of PN” (compare Cat. nos. 25 and 27-30). The importance of the Iron I corpus of sealings from Karkemish is made clear by the very limited amount of comparable material from other sites (Mazzoni 2013: 571-573): after the collapse of the trade networks and administrative structures of the Late Bronze age, their reorganization which followed in Iron I is still poorly known (Genz [2009: 312-313; 2011: 355] stresses that no evidence for administrative activities is to be found in Anatolia during the early Iron age) and the new evidence from Karkemish shows that - notwithstanding the urban and political continuity at Karkemish itself - new formulae, both visual and epigraphical, were devised. https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/7eddb79e76095644a8c3305903e08278.png ed782271c85b9107d548fa8db52f2fb5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_19_O_110"></iframe> Site Karkemish Area C East Locus F.9632 Context Date Early Iron I Sealing Measures h. 1.9; w. 0.7; th. 0.7 cm Context Type Lower Palace Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.19.O.110 Description An account of the resource Fragmentary clay sealing, placed against the neck of a vessel, although no traces of cloth cover or string are preserved on its back. The sealing was impressed with a cylinder seal, featuring two standing male figures facing at the edge of the central scene, not preserved (the hieroglyphic inscription stands as a divider). Of one of them only a thick strand of hair on the back of the head remains, while of the opposite figure a powerfully rendered body, sporting a belt at the waist, and a horizontal left arm may be discerned. The hieroglyphic inscription actually supplies the name of the owner: [...] mwa/i-su-na-sa “[This seal (is)] of Wasuna,” which is the same formula as in the contemporary seal impressions Cat. nos. 24 and 27-30. All these sealings were found in different parts and phases of the early Iron I reconstruction (with several inner refurbishments) of the Late Bronze II Seal-house (for which see above under Cat. nos. 3-4, 14), when a sector for the processing of food was added to the east, featuring benches and circular ovens and siloses. A room farther to the West, along the presumable limit of the building and directly above the earlier rooms which had already that same function, seems to have been used as a storeroom judging from the number of sealings found there (Cat. nos. 27-30). https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/78212cc2ed14500e52754bcb2ebf6125.png dd0243468fa2a6f235fd94fc0ac1291b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/seals+imp/YU_25_O_5/index.html"></iframe> Site Karkemish Area Area 26 Locus F.15017 Context Date Early Iron II Sealing Type Steatite or chlorite cylinder seal Context Type Younus Necropolis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource YU.25.O.5 Description An account of the resource Cylinder seal found in the upper fill of a grave from the Hellenistic period (G.15015) in the Yunus necropolis. The grave, dug in a narrow and deep pit, had been robbed in antiquity of its rich contents (but a few of them remained, such as some golden leaves under the skull): rather than being a heirloom within the funerary assemblage, we think that this much earlier seal must have fallen into the robber’s pit as deriving from another robbed, nearby grave of the Iron age, as so many other examples prove that was the case in the cemetery area. The seal is quite exceptional both in its dimensions, and in its careful and detailed execution over two registers: above, the kneeling archer, with a dagger at the waist and wearing a kilt, aims at an ibex looking backwards and at a deer, while below a lion attacks a charging bull (both motifs closely recall the King’s Gate reliefs by the ruler Katuwa of the end of the 10th century BCE, Woolley and Barnett 1952: pls. B.57-60). A scorpion, a fish and a star are fillers (probably also charged with vague symbolic meanings) introduced to better give a tapestry effect to the whole scene. The seal shares several features (such as the notched borders) with other specimens from the area, which contributes to the definition of the main glyptic workshop active at the site (see above pp. xx-xx). https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/95533ae7ac9afbf799804c950ced8602.png 9ce37d1ac66aa05d4fe780e39ce0538a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/seals+imp/KH_21_O_500/index.html"></iframe> Site Karkemish Area C North Locus F.12300 Context Date Late Bronze IIB Sealing Measures diam. 3.0; th. 1.1 (perf. diam. 0.4) Sealing Type Hematite stamp seal Context Type Lower Palace Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.21.O.500 Description An account of the resource Complete, perforated biconvex seal found in a debris layer above roadway L.12301 along the Seal-house, together with a cylinder seal (KH.21.O.501), thirteen bowl fragments with DEUS marks (e.g. Cat. no. 14) and a painted pithos (Cat. no. 12). The seal is engraved on one side with Anatolian hieroglyphs, giving us the name of the seal owner, framed by a simple ladder motif, typical of the Empire period (see Cat. no. 18). The hieroglyphs of the name form the sequence wa/i? (L439 without central stroke and squares with open bottom) -ni? (L411 unexpected periods at the open ends) -ti? (L90? with a longer ankle) -*a? (L450), which can be read very tentatively as Awa/initi, a hapax however. All hieroglyphic signs, with the exception of ti (L90?), are either made in a sketchy and unusual way or they are unknown signs. On the opposite side there is a sketched figure of a worshiper (?) with a pointed nose and bob hair. The personage is bent slightly forward with stretched arms; legs are depicted with wide upturned feet. The figure is framed by a simplified irregular ladder motif. Iconographic parallels can be found with cloaked worshipers among the seal impressions from the Nişantepe deposit at Hattusha (Herbordt 2005: 58-60, fig. 40) and from Gözlü Kule/Tarsus (Gelb 1956: 252, cat. no. 50, figs. 403, 407). When compared to those specimens, the Karkemish seal shows a less refined execution, representing a local product of the Late Empire period (late 13th century BCE). https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/c6945151009650e4908cccb83cbf73fa.png 5312f5024fe2e559001ce43150fd0299 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/seals+imp/KH_21_O_186/index.html"></iframe> Site Karkemish Area AA Locus F.11703 Context Date Late Bronze II Sealing Type Stone cylinder seal Sealing Measures diam. 1; h. 2.2 cm (perf. diam. 0.4 cm) Context Type Acropolis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.21.O.186 Description An account of the resource Cylinder seal retrieved from the fill (F.11703) of a Hellenistic period pit (P.11704), cut into the a mudbrick wall (W.11388) of the Late Bronze II monumental building. The surface of the seal, made of calcareous stone, appears quite worn and, thus, only a tentative interpretation of the engraved scene can be proposed. A possible schematic standing figure with a long robe can be recognized between two spears or vegetal elements. This latter kind of oblique strokes pointing downwards can be seen on a group of seals from Ugarit (Amiet 1992: fig. 24, nos. 125-127). Next, there are two rampart quadrupeds, possibly equids with their calves next to them. Schematic theories of animals are also found among the Syrian style seals from Ugarit (ibid., 41-44, figs. 14-18). Overall, based on stylistic and iconographic comparisons, it is possible to ascribe this seal to the local Syrian glyptic production of the later second millennium BCE, quite different in quality of execution and style from the other cylinder seal found in area AA (see Cat. no. 20). https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/aad6fe732268a80fc10d74f06fd52802.png 4c672fbd1359579cf2972a1524ff24a4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/seals+imp/KH_20_O_132/index.html"></iframe> Site Karkemish Area AA Locus F.10753 Context Date Late Bronze Sealing Measures diam. 1.0; h. 2.1 cm (perf. diam. 0.3 cm) Sealing Type Faiance cylinder seal Context Type Acropolis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.20.O.132 Description An account of the resource Cylinder seal retrieved from the second phase of use in the Late Bronze II monumental building in the north-western sector of the acropolis mound (the other seal from the area is Cat. no. 21). It was found in the collapse layer (F.10753) over a floor (L.9839) in the south-western wing. The seal is made of whitish faience (a silica-based vitreous material) and features a complex scene, in a style of the so-called Common-style glyptic tradition (see Salje 1990; Porada and Collon 2016: 87-90, pls. 16-18). This includes a standing, apparently naked hero, bearded, wearing a rounded cap and a chignon on the back of the neck. He holds, with his left hand, an oryx with long horns by one hind leg. In front of the personage, on the upper register, there is a schematic winged sun (or a bird with spread wings), next to a couchant winged griffin and a couple of recumbent four-legged quadrupeds, an ibex looking backwards to the left and a gazelle to the right. In the lower register, there are two slain (?) male figures. The head and eyes of the animals are made by centre-dot circles, while the bodies and legs are formed by slender lines that contribute to the general dynamism of the scene. Overall, the iconography, style and composition are close to Mittani style seals and seal impressions from Tell Munbaqa (Werner 2004: 10-14, pls. 9-11), Alalakh (Collon 1982: 87-90, nos. 64-67) and Ugarit (Schaeffer-Forrer 1983: 150-155, nos. RS.25.254-255, 380,385; Amiet 1992: 35-36, nos. 53-54). https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/d8473554872c250ecefdd86edc131be4.png d61fa20ed4322de33e4750e19fdfd1e2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/seals+imp/KH.17.O.448/index.html"></iframe> Site Karkemish Area C East Level Phase A Locus F.8867 Context Date Late Bronze IIB Sealing Measures diam. 1.45; h. 3.75 cm Context Type "Seal House" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.17.O.448 Description An account of the resource This is the only seal actually associated with the large deposit of discarded, impressed sealings found below the floor of the so-called Seal-house in area C East (for which see under Cat. nos. 3-4, 14). Of it, quite exceptionally, we also possess an impression (KH.17.O.671) on a sealing applied to a small container, thus showing that the seal was actually one of those involved in the control of the (sealed) goods of the storeroom. The inscribed cylinder is outstanding, both for its dimensions and for the quality of its engraving, which belongs to a court workshop most likely based at Karkemish itself. The scene features a standing Storm-god, who can be identified as such by the horned high cap – horns being a symbol of divinity – and by the thunderbolt held in his left hand (which is, as customary, tripartite but actually here more W-shaped, as in the hieroglyphic logogram for the god’s name, L199 TONITRUS, Tarhunna in Hittite, Tarhunza in Luwian, Teshub in Hurrian, Hadad in North-west Semitic). The right hand holds a mace against the shoulder and a dagger is suspended to his short kilt, while the shoes with upturned toes are a typical Hittite rendering. In front of the god, the Great King - wearing a hairy (which usually is plain, instead, but see the contemporary royal seal in Waal 2026: fig. 33.3) skull cap and a long, tasseled robe - extends his right arm in a prayer’s gesture with an ‘ankh life symbol above his hand and with the left holds the curved staff of his high office known in Hittite texts as kalmuš, while a winged sun disk hovering above confirms the visual identification for this personage assimilated to the Sun-god (who is actually the emperor and not the king of Karkemish, see Aro 2022: 516-518, figs. 11.3b,5a; Beyer 2001: 341-347, figs. 60-61). A guilloche frames the visual field on both edges, with the lines of the cuneiform legend serving as scene divider. Some fillers are placed behind the sovereign: they are not actual writing although they must represent a landscape of symbolic meaning, even if their connective interpretation remains elusive. Some of them are in fact well known motives, such as the (here much stylized and repeated twice, another one appears next to the emperor’s right hand) ‘ankh life-symbol (L440-441 VITA; Herbordt 2006: 104, fig. 12) as well as the rosette, which is often associated with royalty in imperial Hittite glyptic (cf. Dinçol and Dinçol 2008: pls. 6.56b, 7.66b); on the other hand, the bird of prey, a falcon or an eagle rendered in fine detail, does not seem a hint to the goddess Kubaba because her logogram does not have the outstretched wing (cf. L130 AVIS3), while the X may be the sign for 100 (L399 CENTUM). Overall, they must evoke well-wishing and/or an idea of strength in relation to the Great King. The inscription, both in cuneiform and Anatolian hieroglyphs, gives the name and profession of the owner. The hieroglyphs of the name form the sequence su (L370)-L392-li (L278), while in cuneiform it is written as mŠu-na-DINGIR-LÌ, thus ensuring a reading of the name as Sunaili (Peker 2023a: 131 sub 19, fig.19). In the Karkemish seal, he bears - but only in hieroglyphic writing - the title AULA (L254) “loyal man/loyal nobleman” and his profession is indicated with the sign MAGUS/MEDICUS (L135.2), to be translated as “physician”. It has been suggested (Dinçol and Dinçol 2008: 68) that the latter sign is a depiction of a snake: in fact, if one examines the MAGUS/MEDICUS (L135.2) sign intently on this perfectly carved and preserved seal, the depiction supports the idea that, with its blunt muzzle and horn like protrusions, it looks more like a snake than a bird (which somehow suggests a possible, fascinating connection with the snake rod of the Greek healing god Asclepius). https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/762ad0a94f515dbf70f15555569667ed.png 5d500dba5a28d9a36d2bfc12532a4c4d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_17_O_89"></iframe> Site Karkemish Area C East Locus F.8051 Context Date Late Bronze II or Early Iron I Sealing Measures h. 3.6; w. 5.2; th. 2.4 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.17.O.089 Description An account of the resource Because the sealing was found within the fill of an Iron II pit (P.8050) cutting into the Late Bronze IIB and Iron I layers, we cannot date it by stratigraphic means and it may well belong to an immediately post-Imperial phase. It was applied against the neck and rim of a juglet (diam. ca. 5 cm), probably markedly outturned, covered with a piece of fabric, perhaps an open weaved gauze made out of fine threads, bound with two rows of cord (0.2 cm diam.), the negative signs of which can be seen along the broken section of the sealing. On the obverse it bears two impressions of the same signet ring engraved with Anatolian hieroglyphs giving the owner’s name: i(a) (L209) – zi/a (L376) – tá (L29) which can be read as Iz(z)ita, a name hitherto not attested. This seal is distinct from other 13th century BCE signet ring examples (as Cat. nos. 2, 8, 10) and it may also date from a slightly later period having no decoration and a simple linear arrangement of the signs, thus its date can be broadly determined as between the late 13th and the mid-12th centuries BCE (in the latter case, being contemporary with Cat. nos. 24-30). https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/e5c4bd98cce6c9f8f21b164f8a0d6960.png 48fc05840f2e48449e0e849385eb6a43 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. Site Karkemish Area C East Level Phase A Locus F.8867 Context Type \ Context Date LB IIB Sealing Type C.1 (Wooden box) Sealing Measures 2.3 x 5.3 x 4 Conservation State Fragmentary Seal Impressions Y No of Seal Impressions 2 No of Impressed Seals 2 Seal Types Taya C2 Taya S2 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_17_O_531"></iframe> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.17.O.531 Description An account of the resource large-sized fragment, on the obverse two seal-impressions: one cylinder seal rolling - Taya's seal - shows three figures within a single line frame bordered by two guilloches and hieroglyphic symbols among them in the field. The cuneiform symbols are between the figure located to the right and the frame. The figure to the left, only partial impression has a gown and wields and axe (war or storm god?), the one in middle, facing him, has a long pleated gown, possibly a peaked tiara (perhaps a female deity). The one to the right has a shorter gown with thickened border and is also holding a stick. He probably wears a peaked cap and he is possibly the representation of the seal's owner - Taya. Below the cylinder seal rolling there is a partial stamp-seal impression made with a ring-seal carved with a hieroglyphic inscription, also mentioning the owner, Taya. The reverse shows very clear traces of wooden texture and of slightly curved surface which may suggest that the sealing was placed on the edge of the lid of a wooden box. https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/69706cf27e286aee39837a8250ef6c54.png 9758002096bb4d55466936b30f4931d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. Site Karkemish Area C East Level Phase A Locus F.8867 Context Type In the fill below the floor of the central room Context Date LB IIB Sealing Type D.1 Sealing Measures 5.1 x 3.5 x 3.4 Conservation State Fragmentary Seal Impressions YES No of Seal Impressions 4 No of Impressed Seals 1 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_19_O_304"></iframe> Seal Types Šaušga-Runtiya B1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.19.O.304 Description An account of the resource Large complete sealing, on the obverse four stampings of the same stamp seal depicting an ibex looking left with a hieroglyphic inscription (Šaušga-Runtiya's seal) (1.7 diam.), together with fingerprints. The reverse show the negative impression of two cords wrapped around a rounded object (bundle) with smooth surface. https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/806d0f7c916a51536e8e635053c88bb6.png b3fdf39ddfec0ea9432f63c6630d5a01 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. Site Karkemish Area C Center Level Phase B Locus F.10826 Context Type "Seal House" - Courtyard Context Date LB IIB Sealing Type G.1 Sealing Measures 5.9 x 3.5 x 1.3 Conservation State Fragmentary Seal Impressions YES No of Seal Impressions 7 No of Impressed Seals 1 Seal Types Tili-Šarruma B1 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_20_O_195"></iframe> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.20.O.195 Description An account of the resource Five fragments (restored) of medium-sized sealing. On the obverse it presents at least four stamp seal impressions with hieroglyphic sings. On the reverse there are three possible large rope signs. https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/4f3ab98efef76645a68e0be09bc242fb.png 3d2a231084fb16aa1ad68d637d569937 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. Site Karkemish Area C Center Level Phase B Locus F.10825 Context Type "Seal House" - Courtyard Context Date LB IIB Sealing Type A.1 Sealing Measures 5.4 x 8.8 x 1.9 Conservation State Fragmentary Seal Impressions YES No of Seal Impressions 5 No of Impressed Seals 1 Seal Types Zinni I C1 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_20_O_160"></iframe> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.20.O.160 Description An account of the resource Nearly half preserved large door sealing (several fragments restored) with seven seal impression from the same cylinder seal with tracesof gold cups ( h. 3.2, 3.7 with the cups). The scene depicting three gods standing on animals is framed by a double guillocheboth on the top and bottom. The base is flat with faint grains, either wood or plaster. On the reverse there are two rows of cord (0.4 diam.) and the neagative impression of a peg (3.0 diam.). https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/6620a9370376109fb1707d5a1aa73982.png cda8b49251a23c5ee4c385c7933e7acd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. Site Karkemish Area C Center Level Phase B Locus F.10825 Context Type "Seal House" - Courtyard Context Date LB IIB Sealing Type F.2 Sealing Measures 5.7 x 4 x 2.4 Conservation State Fragmentary Seal Impressions YES No of Seal Impressions 3 No of Impressed Seals 1 Seal Types Abarikisa C1 Aza…C1 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_20_O_099"></iframe> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.20.O.099 Description An account of the resource Large sized sealing. On the obverse it presents two impressions of the the same cylinder seal with cuneiform legend on a vertical line and hieroglyphic signs among the figures. The scene is framed by a double guilloche (3.3 reconstructed height). From the reverse was possibly applied on a bag tied with a large stripe of cloth and several rows of rope? https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/115e99d91479fe4c4393a34aeec7d363.png bae679e1656d5af5b62cca7d8985e157 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. Site Karkemish Area C Center Level Phase B Locus F.10825 Context Type "Seal House" - Courtyard Context Date LB IIB Sealing Type F.1 Sealing Measures 4.9 x 2.9 x 2 Conservation State Fragmentary Seal Impressions YES No of Seal Impressions 8 No of Impressed Seals 1 Seal Types Taki-Šarruma B1 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_20_O_098"></iframe> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.20.O.098 Description An account of the resource Medium sized sealing fragment. On the obverse there are at least four impression of the same stamp (signet?) seal with hieroglyphic signs (1.3 x 1.8). On the reverse there are the negative traces of folds and, possibly, fabric. Along the broken section the sign of a rope can be distinguished. Bag sealing. https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/ec66fee26d9078b6f922325a509f255a.png 1693f126283b334b445c54c6f06545e8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. Site Karkemish Area C Center Level Phase B Locus F.10826 Context Type "Seal House" - Courtyard Context Date LB IIB Sealing Type B.4 Sealing Measures 3.3 x 2 x 1.3 Conservation State Fragmentary Seal Impressions YES No of Seal Impressions 2 No of Impressed Seals 1 Seal Types Taya B2 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_20_O_078"></iframe> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.20.O.078 Description An account of the resource Small sized sealing fragment. On the obverse part of a seal impression is preserved (2.1 x 1.4). The reverse presents a slightly curved shape. Possibly applied to a vessel? https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/files/original/e31a34b465c4d7f20d9419d4590f5e97.png 9974658ed85b570841d6d0d8daf1af06 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karkemish - 2026 Ankara exhibition 3D Model A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, or virtual reality environments. Site Karkemish Area C Center Level Phase B Locus F.4353 Context Type "Seal House" - Courtyard Context Date LB IIB Sealing Type B.5 Sealing Measures 4.7 x 3.8 x 4.2 Conservation State Fragmentary Seal Impressions YES No of Seal Impressions 6 No of Impressed Seals 1 Seal Types Taya B2 3D Model <iframe width="100%" height="800" style="border:0px #ffffff none;" src="https://www.orientlab.net/digital_museum/3dhop_models/sigillo.html?obj=KH_20_O_017"></iframe> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KH.20.O.017 Description An account of the resource Nearly complete jar stopper with 6 impressions of the same stamp seal (Taya B2) (inner diam. 2.5 + frame) on the top, while on the lower part there are traces of cloth and two deep grooves and two horizontal parallel traces in relief (?).