Ambiguity and Minoan Neopalatial Seal Imagery

by: McGowan, E.

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Ambiguity and Minoan neopalatial seal imagery

Author:Erin McGowan

Summary:"Minoan seals have often been described as probelmatically ambiguous. By assembling and reframing current discourse, this volume challenges the value of characterising glyptic imagery in this way. Istead ambiguity may indicate the presence of deliberate practice, incorporateing varied meaning through multivalent or condensed expression, well suited to the compact size of the glyptic medium. Using a form of relational network theory, the author explores the ways in which a selection of glyptic images from Ayia Triada respond to different coneptual and associative contexts and suggests that the idea of indeterminate ambiguity--as a by-product of western taxonomic systems--may mask this multivalent aspect. By positioning glyptic imagery as multivalent this volume makes a signficant contribution to debates within Aegean Bronze Age archaeology and current interpretative practice."

Series:
Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature, 176

96 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Ambiguity in Aegean glyptic studies
Perceptual networks exploring ambiguity in glyptic
Two birds with one stone : analysis of two sealings for Ayia Triada

Subjects:
Antiquities
Art minoen
Art, Minoan
Crete (Greece) Antiquities
Crète (Grèce) Antiquités
Geschichte 1750 v. Chr.-1300 v. Chr
Glyptics
Glyptics Greece Crete
Glyptique Grèce Crète
Greece Crete
Minoans
Minoens
Minoische Kultur
Sceaux Grèce Crète
Seals (Numismatics)
Seals (Numismatics) Greece Crete
Siegel

Ambiguity and Minoan Neopalatial Seal Imagery

by: McGowan, E.

• ISBN-13: 9789170812446 / 978-91-7081-244-6
• ISBN-03: 9170812446 / 91-7081-244-6
• Astrom Editions, Uppsala, 2011

Price: 44,00 EURO

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