Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN GLYPTIC ART PRT230 4. Semester 4 + 0 4.0 6.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
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Goals The aim of the course is to examine and teach Near Eastern seal and seal impressions with their technical, stylistic and religious iconographic features following a chronological sequence.
Course Content Course includes the technical, style and iconography of the glyptic material of the Ancient Near East, especially Anatolian and Sumerian Akkad cultures and the Second and First Millennium cultures of Mesopotamia.
Learning Outcomes 1) Seals that are the most encountered material group in the museums gain historical knowledge and skill.
2) Examines the style and art concepts that change according to the periods.
3) From the Neolithic Age, the first period of use of the seals, He examines the development of the art of seal in the period of the First Millennium until the end of the 1st millennium BC.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Seal types, techniques and terminology, the First seals and impressions in the Near East (Bibliography) Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Uruk Period seals and seal impressions Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming
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3. Week Jamdat Nasr and Early Dynastic I-III seals. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

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4. Week Akkadian Seals and iconography Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

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5. Week Neo-Sumerian Seals Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

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6. Week the Old Assyrian, Old Babylonian, Old Syrian, and Isın-Larsa seal and seal impressions. Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion

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7. Week Anatolian Group seals with their impressions and Hittite seals . Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

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8. Week The Middle Assyrian and Kassite Glyptic Lecture; Question Answer

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9. Week Midterm Exam Question Answer
10. Week the Phrygian-Urartian Glyptic Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving

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11. Week the Late Assyrian Glyptic Lecture; Question Answer

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12. Week Neo-Babylonian Glyptic Lecture; Question Answer

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14. Week The technical, style features, seal forms and subjects of the Akamenite seals. Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion

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15. Week Mycenaean, Eastern Mediterranean-Palestinian seals. Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
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16. Week Finaly Exam Question Answer

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
A. Von Wickede, Prähistorische Stempelglyptik in Vorderasien. München (1990)
N. Özgüç- Ö. Tunca, Kültepe- Kaniš, Mühürlü ve Yazıtlı Kil Bullalar. Ankara, 2001
N. Özgüç, KanişKarumu Ib katı Mühürleri ve Mühür Baskıları. Ankara, 1968
N. Özgüç, Kültepe- Kaniş/ Neşa, Yerli Peruwa ve Aššur- ımitti’nin oğlu Assur’lu tüccar Uşur-ša-Ištar’ın arşivlerine ait kil zarfların mühür baskıları, Ankara 2006.
N. Özgüç, Kültepe Mühür Baskılarında Anadolu Grubu. Ankara, 1965
R. M. Boehmer- H. G. Güterbock, Glyptik aus dem Stadtgebiet von Boğazköy. Berlin, 1987

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ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 4
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 6
Homework 14 4
Midterm Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 25
Final Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 25
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