Cockles, Mussels, Fishing Nets, and Finery: The Relationship between Cult, Textiles, and the Sea Depicted on a Minoan-Style Gold Ring from Pylos

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Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-23 DOI:10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.8.3-4.0365

C. Tully

引用次数: 2

Abstract

abstract:The Griffin Warrior Ring No. 2 is a gold Minoan-style engraved signet ring from Pylos dating to the Late Helladic IIA (1580–1490 BCE). The ring’s bezel depicts a seascape with a columnar tree shrine flanked by palm trees situated on a rocky outcrop. Five elaborately dressed female figures stand on either side of the shrine. The tree shrine features a net pattern in the space between its stone or brick piers. I argue that this represents a fishing net and that the structure is a sea altar dedicated to an unnamed Minoan tree deity. The ring’s hoop is decorated with cockleshells, further emphasizing its marine theme. I propose that the iconography alludes to marine food resources, practical and luxury textile fibers, sea trade, transculturality, and cult and is testament to the importance of the sea in the Aegean Bronze Age.

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贝壳、贻贝、渔网和服饰:皮洛斯米诺斯风格的金戒指上描绘的邪教、纺织品和海洋之间的关系

狮鹫战士戒指2号是皮洛斯的一枚米诺斯风格的金色雕刻图章戒指，可追溯到希腊晚期IIA(公元前1580-1490年)。戒指的边框描绘了一个海景，一个柱状的树神社两侧是坐落在岩石露头上的棕榈树。五个精心打扮的女性雕像站在神社的两侧。树龛的特点是在石头或砖墩之间的空间形成网状图案。我认为这代表了一个渔网，而这个结构是献给一位不知名的米诺斯树神的海坛。戒指的环身装饰有贝壳，进一步强调了它的海洋主题。我认为，这幅画暗示了海洋食物资源、实用和奢华的纺织纤维、海上贸易、跨文化和崇拜，证明了海洋在爱琴海青铜时代的重要性。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (JEMAHS) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to traditional, anthropological, social, and applied archaeologies of the Eastern Mediterranean, encompassing both prehistoric and historic periods. The journal’s geographic range spans three continents and brings together, as no academic periodical has done before, the archaeologies of Greece and the Aegean, Anatolia, the Levant, Cyprus, Egypt and North Africa. As the publication will not be identified with any particular archaeological discipline, the editors invite articles from all varieties of professionals who work on the past cultures of the modern countries bordering the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Similarly, a broad range of topics are covered, including, but by no means limited to: Excavation and survey field results; Landscape archaeology and GIS; Underwater archaeology; Archaeological sciences and archaeometry; Material culture studies; Ethnoarchaeology; Social archaeology; Conservation and heritage studies; Cultural heritage management; Sustainable tourism development; and New technologies/virtual reality.