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Seals and Sealing: Iran
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During most of the third millennium B.C. western Iran was largely under Mesopotamian domination. The majority of seals are often hard to differentiate from the Early Dynastic, Akkadian, and Ur III glyptic of Mesopotamia. Occasionally, seals are marked by stylistic and iconographic peculiarities that lead us to recognize them as having been made in Elam (southwestern Iran). A different phenomenon is illustrated by the presence at Susa of a few seals from Bactria and the Gulf Region. These seals had very little influence on Elamite glyptic and appear as a result of commercial exchange. The compartmented seals are widely distributed throughout Iran although the overwhelming majority comes from western Central Asia.
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