[Aztlan] Unknown seal

[Bryan R. Just]

This 'seal' is from Tlatilco.

I'm attaching David Kelly's article on it from JSTOR.

Bryan

Bryan R. Just, Ph.D.
Curatorial Assistant, Art of the Americas
Princeton University Art Museum

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On Behalf Of Steve Farmer
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 5:43 PM
To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Subject: [Aztlan] Unknown seal

Dear List,

I'm a comparative historian who has been following this List and its 
predecessors for some years. I run a large pan-Eurasian Research List 
(725 or so members, most of whom are professional researchers) with 
Michael Witzel (Indology, Harvard) and Lars Martin Fosse (Oslo) at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/

Our researchers include archaeologists, population geneticists, 
linguists, Sinologists, Near Eastern researchers, Indologists, 
comparativists, etc. -- probably the biggest collection of them in the 
world.

Victor Mair, at the University of Pennsylvania, recently posted a query 
on the List on the following cylinder seal, which is unprovenanced. 
Victor at first assumed it was an Old World piece:

http://www.safarmer.com/Indo-Eurasian/rollerseal.jpg

http://www.safarmer.com/Indo-Eurasian/rollersealprint.jpg

One of our Sinologists sent the photo to Ulla Kasten, curator of Yale's 
Babylonian Collection, and Ulla wrote back that it wasn't Near Eastern 
at all, but thought it might be Mesoamerican or South American.

Can Justin Kerr or anyone else on the List provide some help? Are there 
any similar images around? Any help will be much appreciated.

Best,
Steve Farmer

http://www.safarmer.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/


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