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Engraved Gems

From antiquity to the present
Buch | Hardcover
230 Seiten
2017
Sidestone Press (Verlag)
978-90-8890-506-3 (ISBN)
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This book discuss different types of engraved gems in the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, their makers, users and re-users, combining archaeological, culture historical and geological perspectives.
Many are no larger than a fingertip. They are engraved with symbols, magic spells and images of gods, animals and emperors. These stones were used for various purposes. The earliest ones served as seals for making impressions in soft materials. Later engraved gems were worn or carried as personal ornaments – usually rings, but sometimes talismans or amulets. The exquisite engraved designs were thought to imbue the gems with special powers. For example, the gods and rituals depicted on cylinder seals from Mesopotamia were thought to protect property and to lend force to agreements marked with the seals.

This edited volume discusses some of the finest and most exceptional precious and semi-precious stones from the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities – more than 5.800 engraved gems from the ancient Near East, Egypt, the classical world, renaissance and 17th-20th centuries – and other special collections throughout Europe. Meet the people behind engraved gems: gem engravers, the people that used the gems, the people that re-used them and above all the gem collectors. This is the first major publication on engraved gems in the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden since 1978.

Ben van den Bercken is an archaeologist and former assistant-curator Engraved Gems at the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden. His work on the collection of engraved gems include contributions to the collection’s history, Egyptian scarabs and cylinders seals. As an archaeologist he is working at excavations in Alexandria, Egypt. Vivian Baan studied Classics (Latin and ancient Greek languages and cultures) in Leiden. In her Master Classics and Ancient Civilisations she focused on museology, epigraphy and social history. She is now working at the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, as an editor and executive assistant to the director.

Preface

Wim Weijland, director Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

 

Introduction

Ben van den Bercken (assistant curator Engraved Gems, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden)

 

1. Roman Gems in Old Collections and in Modern Archaeology

Martin Henig (member of the Faculty of Classics at University of Oxford and honorary professor at University College London)

 

2. Cassandra on Seals. Ring Stone Images as Self-Representation: an Example

Marianne Kleibrink (professor emeritus Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology, Groningen University)

 

3. Some Cameos in Leiden – Roman to Neoclassicism

Gertrud Platz-Horster (former vice director Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

 

4. The Original RMO Engraved Gem Collection: Gem Identification and Applied Research Techniques

Hanco Zwaan and Christine Swaving (Naturalis Biodiversity Center/Netherlands Gemmological Laboratory, Leiden)

 

5. An Important Collection of Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals.

Diederik J.W. Meijer (associate professor Near Eastern Archaeology, Leiden University)

 

6. Sasanian Seals: Owners and Re-users

Rika Gyselen (directeur de recherche CNRS, émérite, Mondes iranien et indien)

 

7. Invocations to Hermes and Aphrodite on Two Engraved Gems in Leiden

Attilio Mastrocinque (professor of Roman history, University of Verona)

 

8. The Importance of Gems in the Work of Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640

Marcia Pointon (professor emeritus in History of Art, University of Manchester)

 

9. Post-Classical Cameos, their Makers and Users

Claudia Wagner (senior research lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford)

 

10. Princely Splendour: Some Cameo Vessels from the Middle of the Seventeenth Century and their Patrons

Jørgen Hein (senior curator of the Royal Danish Collection at Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen)

 

11. “A Treasure, a Schoolmaster, a Pass-Time” Dactyliothecae in the 18th and 19th Centuries and their Function as Teaching Aids in Schools and Universities

Valentin Kockel (professor emeritus for Classical Archaeology, University of Augsburg)

 

12. Non Grylloi, Baskania Sunt. On the Significance of the So Called Grylloi/Grilli or Grylli in Greek and Roman Glyptics

Carina Weiss, (independent researcher, Archaeological Institute of the University of Würzburg)

 

13. Another Perspective on the So Called Grylloi

Selkit Verberk (assistant curator Engraved Gems, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden)

 

14. Some Unpublished Scarabs from the Leiden Collection

Ben van den Bercken (assistant curator Engraved Gems, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden)

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities ; 14
Zusatzinfo 141fc / 26 bw
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 210 x 280 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Antiquitäten
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Kreatives Gestalten
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
ISBN-10 90-8890-506-1 / 9088905061
ISBN-13 978-90-8890-506-3 / 9789088905063
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