CATALOGUE

OF THE
BABYLONIAN COLLECTIONS
AT YALE

CDL Press Bethesda, Maryland

2016
 HELLENISTIC SEAL IMPRESSIONS
IN THE
YALE BABYLONIAN COLLECTION
RING-BULLAE AND OTHER CLAY SEALINGS

RONALD WALLENFELS
Published with assistance from the Clay Fund.

© 2016. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any
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Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the
publisher, CDL Press, P.O. Box 34454, Bethesda, MD 20827, and the author, Ronald
Wallenfels.

Designed by Ulla Kasten

Published by CDL Press, POB 34454, Bethesda, MD 20827
ISBN 9781934309681

Catalogue of the Babylonian Collections at Yale

Volume 1: PJ 3711.N55 1994

Volume 2: PJ 3711.N54 1995
Volume 3: PJ 3711.N57 2001
Volume 4: PJ 3711.Y28 2000

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wallenfels, Ronald, author.

Title: Hellenistic seal impressions in the Yale Babylonian collection : ring-bullae
and other clay sealings / by Ronald Wallenfels.
Other titles: Catalogue of the Babylonian collections at Yale ; 5.
Description: Bethesda, Maryland : CDL Press, 2016. | Series: Catalogue of the
Babylonian collections at Yale ; 5
Identifiers: LCCN 2016020305 | ISBN 9781934309681 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Seals (Numismatics) Iraq. | Art, Hellenistic Iraq.|
Iraq Civilization To 634. | Yale Babylonian Collection Catalogs.
Classification: LCC CD5344 .W35 2016 | DDC 737/.609567
dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016020305
Dedicated to the Memory

of William W. Hallo
(1928–2015)
 CONTENTS

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
The Corpus 2
Comparanda 6
Hellenistic Babylonian Archival Practices 10
Hellenistic Babylonian Seals and Sealing Practices 17
Arrangement of the Catalogue 24
Reader’s Note 26
Catalogue of Objects 27
Catalogue of Seal Impressions 31
Indices 243
Seal Motifs 245
Secondary and Filler Motifs 249
Pictorial Typological Index 251
Personal Names 265
Seal Inscriptions 267
Concordance of Museum Numbers 269
Concordance of Private Seal Impressions 271
Bibliography 273