Zurich Open Repository and Archive University of Zurich Main Library Strickhofstrasse 39 CH-8057 Zurich www.zora.uzh.ch Year: 1996 Egyptian Iconography on Syro-Palestinian Cylinder Seals of the Middle Bronze Age Teissier, Beatrice Abstract: This book seeks to contribute to the history of Syria-Levant in the Middle Bronze Age by assessing Egyptian “inﬂuence” and Syro-Levantine perceptions of Egypt through an analysis of the use of Egyptian imagery in Syro-Levantine cylinder seal iconography. This includes an evaluation of the nature and composition of Syrian glyptic as a whole. The book concludes that Egyptian imagery, although inspirational, owed nothing to Egyptian political or religious inﬂuence in Syria. Rather, this imagery was assimilated coherently into an integral Syrian glyptic repertoire, which was an expression of the political stability and cultural autonomy of Syria in the Middle Bronze Age. The smaller cylinder seal evidence from the Lebanon and Palestine also reﬂects these region’ political and cultural status quo: strong Egyptian inﬂuence in the Lebanon and an ambivalent situation in Palestine. Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-151181 Monograph Published Version Originally published at: Teissier, Beatrice (1996). Egyptian Iconography on Syro-Palestinian Cylinder Seals of the Middle Bronze Age. Fribourg, Switzerland / Göttingen, Germany: University Press / Vandenhoeck Ruprecht.