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/library/oar/handle/123456789/38224| Title: | Of earrings, swallows and Theran ladies |
| Other Titles: | Archaeology and fertility cult in the Ancient Mediterranean |
| Authors: | Tzachili, Iris |
| Keywords: | Santorini Island (Greece) Fertility cults -- Santorini Island (Greece) -- History Fertility cults -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Congresses Minoans -- Religion |
| Issue Date: | 1986 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta Press |
| Citation: | Tzachili, I. (1986). Of earrings, swallows and Theran ladies. In A. Bonanno (Ed.), Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean: papers presented at the First International Conference on Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean, 2-5 September 1985 (pp. 97-104). Malta: University of Malta Press. |
| Abstract: | The paper deals with some minor details occurring almost exclusively in the iconography of the prehistoric settlement of Akrotiri on Thera. These details, i.e. the persistent representation of ladies wearing earrings, the decoration of vases with painted earrings - and especially those called nippled-ewers which are frequently associated with fertility and ritual - and the persistent association between swallows, nippled-ewers, earrings and some flowers well known for their symbolic values (lilies, crocuses), tend to differentiate the religious concepts or, at least, denote the multiple levels and meanings of a religion thought to be Minoan. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/38224 |
| ISBN: | 9060322886 |
| Appears in Collections: | Archaeology and fertility cult in the Ancient Mediterranean |
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