Sea Brought onto Land. Seascape Imagery in the Cycladic pottery from Phylakopi (Melos) in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens
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Swedish Institute at Athens
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Version of Record: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068245424000017
Abstract
This study examines seascape depictions on pottery, including seafaring and sea creature scenes, from the 1896–99 excavations at Phylakopi on Melos, held in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. This analysis demonstrates that seascape scenes varied in character through time and were typically associated with vessel shapes connected to the pouring of liquids between EC III and MC late and later focused on basins. A focus on seafaring is evident in EC III, while later, the iconographic focus on the sea concentrates on sea creatures. An iconographic interest in the sea, alongside that of birds and floral depictions, is suggestive of an interest in living forms that inhabit different places to humans (i.e., non-domestic) with different corporeality to humans. This research contributes further to the growing debate on human-animal/plant relationships and ontologies in the Aegean Bronze Age.
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