Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Sasanian Sealstones is a B.A. thesis completed in 1994 by Catherine Bullock (Demos), who graduated from Near Eastern Studies (now MELC). The thesis was completed under the direction of Professor Guitty Azarpay, as part of a project to catalog and study the Gans Collection of seals, involving multiple undergraduate and graduate researchers throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Bullock later contributed to the digital publication of the Gans Collection on the now-retired online Sasanian Empire project on the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. Although the MELC Department does not typically make undergraduate theses available online, an exception was made for the present thesis as it was and is a very useful aid to the Sasanian part of the Gans Collection and enriches the material available for its study.