Textile technology and Minoan glyptic. Representations of loom weights on Middle Minoan prismatic seals
2018
rozdział w monografii naukowej
angielski
EN The paper discusses the iconography of Middle Minoan three-sided soft prismatic seals in relation to the technology of textile production. Specifically, it investigates how textile tools, such as loom weights, were transformed into pictorial motifs in glyptic. The choice of possibly or potentially depicted implements is further examined with relation to the chaîne opératoire of textile technology and iconography of textile production in various arts. In addition, a few methodological assumptions are put forward in order to identify textile implements in small-scale representations in glyptic, and a hypothesis concerning the possible conceptual meaning of such depictions is suggested.
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