Luciani, M. 2019 Book chapter title: The long life of a royal seal and the Nuzi bullae in the Harvard Semitic Museum (original) (raw)

The study of several unpublished bullae from the 1920s-1930s excavation at Yorgan Tepe, ancient Nuzi, stored in the Harvard Semitic Museum, sheds light onto the administrative practices of the local elite in the last phases of the city's existence. Through comparisons with the cuneiform record, I propose to identify a specific member of the royal family as the user/owner of the cylinder seal presented here. Iconographic and stylistic contextualization lead me to appraise the history, administrative connections and possibly even political ambitions of this likely member of the Nuzi ruling house. By looking at motifs and traditions or themes, I offer a contribution to the present discourse on Hurrian culture, identity and power as evidenced by glyptic art.

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