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Introduction: small windows, wide views / editors: Ameri, Costello, Jamison, ScottPart I. The Ancient Near East et CyprusAdministrative role of seal imagery in the early Bronze Age: Mesopotamian and Iranian traders on the plateau / Holly PittmanSlave labor: Uruk cylinder seal imagery and early writing / Sarah Jarmer ScottThe first female bureaucrats: gender and glyptic in 4th-3rd millennia Northern Mesopotamia / Andrew McCarthyRematerializing the early dynastic banquet seal / Sarah Kielt CostelloSealing practices in the Akkadian Period / Yelena Z. RakicAuthenticity, seal recarving, and authority in the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean / Joanna SmithPart II. South Asia and Persian GulfIndus seals and glyptic studies: an overview / Asko ParpolaLetting the pictures speak: an image-based approach to the mythological and narrative imagery of the Harappan world / Marta AmeriUnderstanding Indus seal carving traditions: a stylistic and metric approach / Gregg M. JamisonOperational sequences and stamp seals: a new approach to identifying groups of seal carvers in the Indus civilization / Adam GreenSeals and sealing technology in the Dilmun Culture: the post Harappan life of the Indus Valley sealing tradition / Steffen LaursenPart III. EgyptThe evolution of ancient Egyptian seals and sealing systems / Joe WegnerEarly dynastic sealing practices as reflection of state formation in Egypt? / Ilona RegulskiSealings and seals from pyramid age Egypt / John NolanThe administrative use of scarabs during the Middle Kingdom / Daphna Ben TorMiddle and New Kingdom sealing practice in Egypt and Nubia: a comparison / Stuart Tyson SmithPart IV. AegeanIntroductory remarks, Aegean / Judith WeingartenAegean Bronze Age sealstones and fingerrings: chronology and functions / John YoungerAn Aegean seal in Greek hands? Thoughts on the perception of Aegean seals in the Iron Age / Maria AnastasiadouCryptic glyptic: multivalency in Minoan glyptic imagery / Erin McgowanThe magic and the munda