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Chapter 39 - Artworks in the Round

Figurines and Zoomorphic Vessels

from Part VI - Aegean Art in the Final Palatial Period of Knossos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2022

Jean-Claude Poursat
Translated by
Carl Knappett
Jean-Claude Poursat
Affiliation:
University of Clermont-Ferrand
Carl Knappett
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

On Crete this is a period of development and transformation in figurines, under the influence of Knossian workshops. Since the previous period, Mesara workshops were making some figurines partly on the wheel, with a cylindrical lower part. It is this type of construction that becomes widespread after 1450 bc, at the expense of the naturalistic-type figurines (Rethemiotakis 2001, 10–18). If some still keep a stepped lower body, a simplified representation of a flounced skirt (AE2, fig. 148; Popham 1984, pl. 191a), most now have a strictly cylindrical base; torso and face are highly stylised, except with some rare exceptions like a head from Psychro with eyes carefully outlined (Rethemiotakis 2001, fig. 21). These figurines are made from separate parts, inserted one into the other or joined (skirt, torso, face, limbs). The torso is still solid, at least on the biggest ones.

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History
 , pp. 379 - 382
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

French, 1971: The development of Mycenaean terracotta figurines, BSA 66, 101–87.Google Scholar
Rethemiotakis, 2001: Rethemiotakis, G., Minoan Clay Figures and Figurines from the Neopalatial to the Subminoan Period, Athens.Google Scholar
Schallin, 2009: Schallin, A.-L. ed., Encounters with Mycenaean Figures and Figurines, Stockholm.Google Scholar

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