Proto-Elamite Script and Seals: A Visual System Involving Several Trades
In Iran, while a number of sites were facing an original proto-urban phenomenon at the end of the 4th millennium B.C.E, the so-called proto-Elamite one, we witness the emergence of a complex multi-level visual system including script, images and symbols. Focusing on cylinder seals and notably on the “classic style”, we will examine the role of craftsmen, administrators, scribes and elites to better understand how this brand-new information system worked and to whom it was addressed.
