Introduction

This section includes the entire glyptic corpus from ancient Urkesh for the late third and the second millennium (the Early Dynastic corpus is treated in a separate website).

I include here only the sealings, whether preserved as such or produced by us from an original seal. For a study of the seals as such, including the aglyptic impressions on preserved sealings, see the section on SUPPORT.

The data are organized in three different ways:

• the catalog by typological label lists all the sealings in sequential order, sorted by the TGL label assigned to each seal;
• the catalog by theme lists the seals, including drawings, photos and notes, sorted according
  • to the theme of the overall composition (whether fully preserved or only partly, as with TGL.ha2 and TGL.ha3, or according to
  • and adding in a separate section the fragments that have only isolated compositional elements;
• the catalog by field number lists all the sealings sorted by the orignal field number from the excavation.