Table Of ContentOrbis Biblicus et Orientalis 268
Erika Bleibtreu /
Hans Ulrich Steymans (Hrsg.)
Edith Porada
zum 100. Geburtstag
A Centenary Volume
Ihre Beziehungen im Spiegel der
Archäologie und der Literatur des
Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt
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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
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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
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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 ca-
reer 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 ar-
ticles 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 dis-
sertation on Akkadian cylinder seals from 1934, which has never been pub-
lished, is thoroughly reviewed at the end of our book. As a doctoral stu-
dent, 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 dis-
sertation 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 be-
came 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 archaeolo-
gy and the history of art. Mirko Novák of the University of Bern wrote the
