Introduction: small windows, wide views / editors: Ameri, Costello, Jamison, Scott
Part I. The Ancient Near East & Cyprus
Administrative role of seal imagery in the early Bronze Age: Mesopotamian and Iranian traders on the plateau / Holly Pittman
Slave labor: Uruk cylinder seal imagery and early writing / Sarah Jarmer Scott
The first female bureaucrats: gender and glyptic in 4th-3rd millennia Northern Mesopotamia / Andrew McCarthy
Rematerializing the early dynastic banquet seal / Sarah Kielt Costello
Sealing practices in the Akkadian Period / Yelena Z. Rakic
Authenticity, seal recarving, and authority in the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean / Joanna Smith
Part II. South Asia and Persian Gulf
Indus seals and glyptic studies: an overview / Asko Parpola
Letting the pictures speak: an image-based approach to the mythological and narrative imagery of the Harappan world / Marta Ameri
Understanding Indus seal carving traditions: a stylistic and metric approach / Gregg M. Jamison
Operational sequences and stamp seals: a new approach to identifying groups of seal carvers in the Indus civilization / Adam Green
Seals and sealing technology in the Dilmun Culture: the post Harappan life of the Indus Valley sealing tradition / Steffen Laursen
Part III. Egypt
The evolution of ancient Egyptian seals and sealing systems / Joe Wegner
Early dynastic sealing practices as reflection of state formation in Egypt? / Ilona Regulski
Sealings and seals from pyramid age Egypt / John Nolan
The administrative use of scarabs during the Middle Kingdom / Daphna Ben Tor
Middle and New Kingdom sealing practice in Egypt and Nubia: a comparison / Stuart Tyson Smith
Part IV. Aegean
Introductory remarks, Aegean / Judith Weingarten
Aegean Bronze Age sealstones and fingerrings: chronology and functions / John Younger
An Aegean seal in Greek hands? Thoughts on the perception of Aegean seals in the Iron Age / Maria Anastasiadou
Cryptic glyptic: multivalency in Minoan glyptic imagery / Erin Mcgowan
The magic and the mundane: the function of talismanic class stones in Minoan Crete / Angela Murock Hussein.