caa a22 4500 378906305 CHVBK 20180305123530.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041201xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/kadm.43.1.159 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/kadm.43.1.159 Kyriakidis Evangelos Aniconicity in the Seal Iconography of the Late Minoan I period [Elektronische Daten] [Evangelos Kyriakidis] The aniconicity of figures depicted on Minoan seals has been widely noticed. Yule recognises "schematized heads” as a feature of Minoan signet ring iconography (1977, 61, n. 23), while Sakellarakis (1972, 248, pll. 94, 95c) observes that the whole upper part of the body of several representations of ‘priestesses with victim' is rendered in an abstract (and thus aniconic) way. Pini (1983, 39-50) argues that this is one of the traits of LM I seal engraving throughout the island. All the seals he compares, except two unclear sealings, have figures that are aniconically rendered. It is believed here, in accordance with Pini's arguments, that this element is a characteristic of the Neopalatial iconography of gold signet rings. © Walter de Gruyter Kadmos Walter de Gruyter 43/1(2004-12-01), 159-166 0022-7498 43:1<159 2004 43 kadm https://doi.org/10.1515/kadm.43.1.159 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/kadm.43.1.159 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kyriakidis Evangelos NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Kadmos Walter de Gruyter 43/1(2004-12-01), 159-166 0022-7498 43:1<159 2004 43 kadm CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter