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Minoan Wall Painting of Pseira, Crete: A Goddess Worshipped in the Shrine

by Bernice Jones
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781931534390
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press
  • Publisher Imprint: INSTAP Academic Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 116
  • Original Price: GBP 29.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 994 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Techniques / General

Short description: Evidence is presented for restoring the fragmentary wall painting from the Minoan shrine on the islet of Pseira located just of the northeastern coast of Crete. A large-scale goddess faces a smaller suppliant in a presentation scene on an incurved altar platform. Virtually restored to the east wall of Room 6, the goddess confirms the building as a shrine and religious center of the community. The painting's Knossian style and technique, and imported Knossian ritual vessels, argue for a strong Knossian religious presence at Pseira. Long description: This study presents evidence for restoring the fragmentary painting from Pseira. It argues against previous reconstructions, finding errors including ignoring the fragments' scales. With the fragments' scales accurately recorded, the study reveals a large-scale goddess facing a smaller suppliant in a presentation scene on an incurved altar platform. The reconstruction is based on examinations, drawings, and photographs taken to scale of the fragments and digital imaging. The painted garments are translated into modern cloth replicas that adorn live models that pose as goddess and suppliant. Virtually restored to the east wall of Room 6, the goddess positively establishes the building already conjectured as a shrine and identifies it as the religious center of the community. The painting's Knossian style and technique, and imported Knossian ritual vessels, argue for a strong Knossian religious presence at Pseira. Knossian style religious processions likely culminated at the shrine to present offerings to the goddess.

Jones, Bernice: - Bernice Jones PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Taught at Queens College, Parsons School of Design, Ringling College of Art and Design. Minoan costume replicas exhibited at National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece; Herakleion Archaeological Museum, Crete, Greece; Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Australia; Institute of Classical Archaeology, Graz, Austria; Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna, Austria.

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