Daily life scenes referring to working activities are very rare in Aegean art. A survey of the evidence demonstrates that they can be found mainly in a homogeneous group of seals (mainly of the prismatic type) coming, with few exceptions, from north-eastern Crete and especially from Mallia, and belonging to the protopalatial period, with a strong concentration in its later part. Only a single scene is to be found outside this area, both in Knossos and Crete. This peculiar distribution can be explained as the consequence of a different organization of craft production or, less probably, as a different communication strategy of élites from Mallia. It demonstrates, in both cases, the differences among the regional power centres during the protopalatial period.
Titolo: | Immagini e realtà della produzione nella Creta minoica: il tema assente |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2011 |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11769/64192 |
ISBN: | 978-88-6125-075-8 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio) |