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Inhaltsverzeichnis / Contents Foreword ............................................................................................. XI Erika Bleibtreu Edith Porada: Bibliographie 1934–1995 ............................................. 1 Edith Porada (1912–1994): Leben und Werk ..................................... 19 I. Siegelsammlungen Irit Ziffer The Akkadian Seals in the Hahn-Voss Collection .............................. 45 Hans Ulrich Steymans Die Sammlung Friedrich und Maria Sarre .......................................... 75 Barbara Feller „Schneller als der Wind“ – Pferdedarstellungen auf mittel- assyrischen Siegelabrollungen aus Assur ........................................... 105 Irit Ziffer Die Siegel aus der Sammlung des Franziskanerklosters Flagellatio in Jerusalem heute ............................................................................... 121 Edith Porada Die Siegel aus der Sammlung des Franziskanerklosters Flagellatio in Jerusalem (Berytus V, 1938) ............................................................... 125 The Oldest Inscribed Works of Art in the Columbia Collections (Columbia University Library Columns XIII, 1964) .......................... 151 VI CONTENTS Critical Review: Corpus of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in North American Collections (Journal of Cuneiform Studies 4, 1950) .......... 155 Seal Impressions on the Cuneiform Tablets (Ancient Mesopotamian Art and Selected Texts, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York 1976) ...................................................... 163 II. Methoden Mirko Novák Einleitung und Überblick zur Methode ............................................ 169 Edith Porada The Warrior with Plumed Helmet: A Study of Syro-Cappadocian Cylinder Seals and Bronze Figurines (Berytus VII, 1942) ............... 177 Suggestions for the Classification of Neo-Babylonian Cylinder Seals (Orientalia 16, 1947) ............................................................... 185 Problems of Interpretation in a Cylinder Seal of the Akkad Period from Iran (Compte-rendu de l’onzième Rencontre assyriologique internationale, 1964) ........................................................................ 201 True or False? Genuine and False Cylinder Seals at Andrews Uni- versity (Andrews University Seminary Studies VI, 1968) ................. 207 On the Complexity of Style and Iconography in Some Groups of Cylinder Seals from Cyprus (Acts of ‘The Mycenaeans in the East- ern Mediterranean’, 1973) ............................................................... 219 Problems of Method in the Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East (Journal of the American Oriental Society 102, 1982) ................................................................................................. 233 Dominique Collon Edith Porada as a Teacher ................................................................. 245 CONTENTS VII III. Ost-West-Transfer Joan Aruz Seals and Interconnections ................................................................ 255 Edith Porada Mycenae 1939–1956, 1957. Part II: A Faience Cylinder (The Annual of the British School of Archaeolgy at Athens 52, 1958) ................................................................................................. 269 Three Cylinder Seals from Tombs 1 and 2 of Hala Sultan Tekke (Paul Åstroem et al., eds., Hala Sultan Tekke 1, 1976) .................... 285 The Cylinder Seal (Patricia M. Bikai, ed., The Pottery of Tyre, 1978) ................................................................................................. 293 A Theban Cylinder Seal in Cypriote Style with Minoan Elements (Acts of… ‘The relations between Cyprus and Crete, ca. 2000-500 B.C.’, 1979) ....................................................................................... 299 Remarks on the Tôd Treasure in Egypt (Studies in Honor of I. M. Diakonoff, 1982) ............................................................................... 309 A Subject for Continuing Conversation (Essays in Honor of Machteld J. Mellink, 1986) ............................................................... 325 Late Cypriote Cylinder Seals Between East and West (Acts of…‘Cyprus between the Orient and the Occident’, 1986) ..... 339 Discussion of a Cylinder Seal, probably from Southeast Iran (Iranica Antiqua XXIII, 1988) .......................................................... 351 Remarks on Cypriote Cylinders (Paul Åström, ed., Acta Cypria, Part 3, 1992) ...................................................................................... 355 A Cylinder with a Storm God and Problems (Diederik J. W. Meijer, ed., Natural Phenomena, 1992) .................. 365 Holly Pittman Anchoring Intuition in Evidence: A continuing discussion of cylinder seals from southeastern Iran ............................................... 375 VIII CONTENTS IV. Die Dissertation zu Rollsiegeln der Akkad-Zeit Erika Bleibtreu Zur nicht publizierten unter Viktor Christian verfassten Wiener Dissertation Edith Poradas von 1934 ................................................ 397 V. Tafeln / Plates Irit Ziffer The Akkadian Seals in the Hahn-Voss Collection ............................ 543 Hans Ulrich Steymans Die Sammlung Friedrich und Maria Sarre ........................................ 557 Edith Porada Die Siegel aus der Sammlung des Franziskanerklosters Flagellatio in Jerusalem ..................................................................... 561 The Oldest Inscribed Works of Art in the Columbia Collections ...... 565 Seal Impressions on the Cuneiform Tablets ...................................... 567 The Warrior with Plumed Helmet ..................................................... 570 Suggestions for the Classification of Neo-Babylonian Cylinder Seals .................................................................................... 571 Problems of Interpretation in a Cylinder Seal of the Akkad Period from Iran .................................................................... 579 True or False? Genuine and False Cylinder Seals at Andrew University ........................................................................ 580 On the Complexity of Style and Iconography in some Groups of Cylinder Seals from Cyprus .............................................. 585 Joan Aruz Seals and Interconnections ................................................................ 588 Edith Porada Mycenae 1939–1956, 1957. Part II: A Faience Cylinder .................. 595 CONTENTS IX The Cylinder Seal ............................................................................. 597 A Theban Cylinder Seal in Cypriote Style with Minoan Elements ... 600 Remarks on the Tôd Treasure in Egypt ............................................ 602 A Subject for Continuing Conversation ............................................. 610 Late Cypriote Cylinder Seals Between East and West ...................... 612 Discussion of a Cylinder Seal, probably from Southeast Iran ........... 616 Remarks on Cypriote Cylinders ......................................................... 620 A Cylinder with a Storm God and Problems ..................................... 625 Holly Pittman Anchoring Intuition in Evidence: A continuing discussion of cylinder seals from southeastern Iran ............................................ 629 Autorinnen und Autoren ................................................................... 641 Foreword Edith Porada (1912-1994) would have celebrated her 100th birthday on 22 August 2012. In order to honor this highly respected international scholar, Erika Bleibtreu and Hans Ulrich Steymans decided in 2011 to edit an “Edith Porada Centenary Volume” reprinting some of her articles and contextualizing them in present research. The handling of the amount of images of seals we wanted to present turned out to be more difficult and time-consuming than we had thought. Therefore our Centenary Volume goes to print with a delay of two years, after the 20th anniversary of Edith Porada’s death on Monday, 24 March 2014, and eighty years after she submitted her dissertation at the University of Vienna in 1934. Thinking it to be more appropriate to commemorate her birthday, we kept the title pointing to the centenary of 1912, the year when Edith Porada was born in Vienna (Austria). This book presents Edith Porada particularly as an Austrian lady. Em- peror Franz Joseph I had ennobled her family in 1890. The biography given at the beginning of our book stresses her childhood and youth in Vienna, her studies and her dissertation submitted at Vienna University. The political situation in 1938 forced her to leave Austria. The young scholar emigrated to the United States where she received a fellowship from the American Philosophical Society as early as 1940 and was en- trusted with the cataloguing of the seal impressions from Nuzi as well as the seals of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Thus, she started an academic career that would hardly have been possible in post-war Austria. Although she became a U. S. citizen in 1944, Edith Porada often spent her holidays at Hagengut, the family’s estate in the mountains of Nether Austria. Erika Bleibtreu made Porada’s acquaintance in about 1970, when she visited her at Hagengut, near Maria Zell. She became her friend during her stays in Austria. Edith Porada also occasionally came to Vienna, to the XII ERIKA BLEIBTREU AND HANS ULRICH STEYMANS “Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien”, where she became friends with the philologists teaching there, Hans Hirsch and Hermann Hunger. The central part of this book contains reprints of some of Edith Porada’s articles of which copies are sometimes difficult to obtain. We arranged them according to three topics: work on collections, her methods, and the trans- mission of goods, ideas, and motifs between the Aegean and Iran. The first chapter deals with Porada’s work on different seal collections such as the former Hahn-Voss collection in Berlin (1933-34), the seal collection of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem (1938) as well as the seal collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York (1946-48). Her dissertation on Akkadian cylinder seals from 1934, which has never been pub- lished, is thoroughly reviewed at the end of our book. As a doctoral student, Porada handled more than 542 seals from publications and private collections that she visited, attributing them to topics and describing them. The list of iconographic motifs especially makes her earliest academic work still valuable. Irit Ziffer is a student of Edith Porada’s late student Pirya Beck. She publishes those Akkad seals from the former Hahn collection that Edith had studied in Berlin in the 1930s and that were donated to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after the Second World War. During her research for her dissertation in Berlin, Porada also studied the Akkad seals from the collection of Friedrich and Maria Sarre as well as those from the Vorderasiatisches Museum. Hans Ulrich Steymans characterizes Sarre’s collection, whereas Barbara Feller contributed an article on Middle-Assyrian seal impressions from Assur that are kept in the Vorderasiatisches Museum. The reprint of four of Porada’s articles on the collections of the Studium Biblicum Fran- ciscanum in Jerusalem (1938) as well as Columbia University (1964) and the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York (1950, 1976) brings this first chapter to a close, reminding us to Edith Porada’s early years. After starting her teaching career at Queen’s College, City University of New York in 1950, and especially after her move to Columbia University in 1958 Edith Porada taught a continual stream of students about the art and society of ancient Near Eastern civilizations. Many of these students became scholars in the field of Porada’s research. Therefore we asked some of her students to contribute from their current research linked to Porada’s interests in teaching and study. The contribution of her former student Dominique Collon telling about her way of teaching closes the second chapter of this book, which consists of reprinted articles that reveal the methods applied by Porada in her work on ancient Near Eastern archaeology and the history of art. Mirko Novák of the University of Bern wrote the