Register (sculpture)

(Two separate steles)—
Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions from the city of Carchemish, separated by lined registers.

In art and archaeology, a register is a vertical level in a work that consists of several levels, especially where the levels are clearly separated by lines; modern comic books typically use similar conventions. It is thus comparable to a row, or a line in modern texts.

Common examples are from Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs as decoration scenes, on objects.

Luwian language hieroglyphs were also represented in stone art, in registers. Another example, in Mesopotamian art, would be the stones called Kudurru, or boundary stones, which often had registers of gods on the upper registers of the scenes.

Babylonian kudurru of the late Kassite period found near Baghdad by the French botanist André Michaux (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris). Note the upper scene is composed of:—2 Register Sets.

See also

• Luwian language
• Kudurru
• Libyan Palette, (external link 2)
  Former link 1, had 3 registers of Marching animals.

External links

• Louvre block statue of Wahibre-(Wah,ib,re) Louvre statue.
  Enlarge in Window--(to see: Registers of hieroglyphs); accessed 1 June 2007. See also: Block statue (Egyptian)
• Aramaic inscription-(Registers); Article. see: Aramaic language