A stamped sealing from Middle Chalcolithic Tel Tsaf: implications for the rise of administrative practices in the Levant

Michael Freikman; David Ben-Shlomo; Yosef Garfinkel

doi:10.1080/00758914.2021.1923906

A stamped sealing from Middle Chalcolithic Tel Tsaf: implications for the rise of administrative practices in the Levant

Michael Freikman, David Ben-Shlomo, Yosef Garfinkel

Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology

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This article describes and discusses a stamped sealing found at Middle Chalcolithic Tel Tsaf (5th millennium BCE). This is the earliest stamped sealing found in the southern Levant. The article describes the object, as well as its petrographic composition, find-spot and parallels. Furthermore, the artefact’s implications for the rise of administrative practices in the Levant during the protohistoric periods are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-12
Number of pages	12
Journal	Levant
Volume	53
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2021.1923906
State	Published - 2021

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Middle Chalcolithic
Tel Tsaf
sealing

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