ABSTRACT

During the four seasons of excavation (2015–2019) in the newly-discovered Iron Age II and III eastern cemetery of Qareh Tepe in Sagzabad, 40 cylinder seals were found in the trench 12 in 10 graves. All of these seals have been made from faience. According to the style and composition, they are divided into two distinct types; Local and Neo-Assyrian style. Local style includes abstract animals with long horns, human and animal, undulating ladder-patterned lines, and the oblique square with a diagonal line of the crosshatching. The procession of great bird seals that they have clearly been inspired by the Assyrian type, it can be said that they are probably a local version of an Assyrian type that were made in Iran. Presenting scenes of hunting, Neo-Assyrian style seals also show the expansion of the Assyrian cultural sphere to this region of Iran. Since all of these seals have been found from Qareh Tepe, and many of them have been discovered in women’s graves and some even in the graves of infants, they can be strong evidence of punctuation to administrative use, these seals were used in personal ornament necklaces and had possibly a religious function at the beginning of the Iron Age III.

摘要

在萨格扎巴德新发现的铁器时代 II 和 III 东部公墓 Qareh Tepe 的四个挖掘季节（2015-2019 年）期间，在 10 个坟墓的 12 号壕沟中发现了 40 个圆柱海豹。所有这些印章都是用彩陶制成的。根据风格和构成，它们分为两种截然不同的类型；当地和新亚述风格。地方风格包括抽象的长角动物、人和动物、起伏的梯形线条、斜方格与斜线的交叉影线。大鸟海豹的游行显然受到亚述类型的启发，可以说它们可能是伊朗制造的亚述类型的本地版本。呈现狩猎场景的新亚述风格海豹也展示了亚述文化领域向伊朗这一地区的扩张。