propendere per una datazione leggermente più antica, ovvero al
periodo paleo-elamita antico o transizionale, corrispondente alla
fase iniziale della dinastia dei Sukkal-mah.
19
Per questo simbolo v. Porter 2001: ‘ball-staff’.
20
Campurra Mazzoni 1972: 427 ‘Dettagli iconografici e stilistici
propongono un’attribuzione del pezzo alla tradizione paleoassira
della Glittica di Cappadocia, mentre i raffronti con i sigilli ben
datati del livello Ib di Kültepe indicano come probabile datazione
il XVIII secolo’.
21
Per questa scena e la sua lunga tradizione ed evoluzione nella
glittica mesopotamica ed extra-mesopotamica cfr. la sintesi in
Collon 1987
a
: 193-97.
22
Per un’articolata discussione dei singoli elementi che compongono
l’iconografia del sigillo e i loro paralleli nella glittica di Cappadocia
v. Campurra Mazzoni 1972: 426-27 e note relative.
23
Campurra Mazzoni 1972: 429 ‘Glittica di Cappadocia, d’età
paleobabilonese, ma di ispirazione tematica locale’; Porada 1948:
109-10 ‘Provincial Babylonian Group’.
24
Per l’abbigliamento di questi due personaggi e del personaggio
femminile v. i numerosi esempi in Collon 1987: 141, 727, 833-
34, 877, 906.
25
Campurra Mazzoni 1972: 430; Porada 1948: tav. CXXXIII, 886
‘Provincial Babylonian Group’; Özgüç 1968: 48 ‘Schematic Old
Assyrian Style’.
26
Ascalone 2012: 3B.178 per la posa del capride, 3B.96, 3B.178,
3C.4 per l’elemento a forma di piccolo albero; per quanto riguarda
le figure umane, una somiglianza vaga, data la scarsa qualità
dell’intaglio, si può trovare con 3B.154, 3B.155 e 3C.4.
27
Ascalone 2012: 203, con ampia bibliografia, in riferimento ai
gruppi 3A-C.
28
Campurra Mazzoni 1972: 433 data il sigillo al XV secolo a.C.
‘all’interno della produzione glittica medio-elamita’. La datazione
al periodo paleo-elamita tardo anticipa di poco la proposta di
Campurra Mazzoni e si basa sui confronti con il materiale del
recentissimo Ascalone 2012.
29
Collon 1987
a
: 61-62 ‘Towards the middle of the 2nd millennium
BC, a new material for seals made its appearance. This was
sintered quartz, also known as composition (or, less accurately, as
faience, frit or paste). This opaque material, which was easy to cut
and could be fired and glazed, made it possible to mass-produce
seals (…). Although there is evidence for many of these seals
having been used for sealing, they were probably also valued for
their bright colours, which have now vanished, and were exported
19
See Porter 2001.
20
Campurra Mazzoni 1972: 427 ‘Dettagli iconografici e stilistici
propongono un’attribuzione del pezzo alla tradizione paleoassira
della Glittica di Cappadocia, mentre i raffronti con i sigilli ben
datati del livello Ib di Kültepe indicano come probabile datazione
il XVIII secolo’.
21
For the long tradition of the ‘contest scene’ in Mesopotamian
and ancient Near Eastern glyptics, see Collon 1987
a
: 193-97.
22
See the detailed analysis of each of the iconographical motifs on
the seal and their parallels in Cappadocian glyptics in Campurra
Mazzoni 1972: 426-27.
23
Campurra Mazzoni 1972:429 ‘Glittica di Cappadocia, d’età
paleobabilonese, ma di ispirazione tematica locale’; Porada 1948:
109-10 ‘Provincial Babylonian Group’.
24
See several examples of the typical Cappadocian clothes of the
two male figures and the female worshiper in Collon 1987: 141,
727, 833-34, 877, 906.
25
Campurra Mazzoni 1972: 430; Porada 1948: pl. CXXXIII, 886
(’Provincial Babylonian Group’); Özgüç 1968: 48 ‘Schematic Old
Assyrian Style’.
26
Ascalone 2012: 3B.178 (goat’s pose), 3B.96, 3B.178, 3C.4
(trees); human figures vaguely resemble 3B.154, 3B.155,
3C.4.
27
Ascalone 2012: 203, with previous literature referring to seals
of the 3A-C groups.
28
Campurra Mazzoni 1972: 433 dates the seal to the 15th century
BC ‘all’interno della produzione glittica medio-elamita’. An only
slightly different date to the late Palaeo-Elamite can be suggested
on the basis of parallels very recently published by Ascalone
2012.
29
Collon 1987
a
: 61-62 ‘Towards the middle of the 2nd
millennium BC, a new material for seals made its appearance.
This was sintered quartz, also known as composition (or, less
accurately, as faience, frit or paste). This opaque material, which
was easy to cut and could be fired and glazed, made it possible to
mass-produce seals (…). Although there is evidence for many of
these seals having been used for sealing, they were probably also
valued for their bright colours, which have now vanished, and
were exported and worn as jewellery and amulets. Many were
found in graves’.
30
Campurra Mazzoni 1972: 438 ‘In conclusione, il sigillo appare
di stile mitannico’. Cf. Frankfort 1939: 278-79, ‘popular style’;
Porada 1947: 12, ‘common style’.
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