Out of the mouths of pots : towards an interpretation of the symbolic meaning of Cypriot Bronze Age funerary artefacts, including examples in the University of Canterbury's Logie Collection /

Out of the mouths of pots : towards an interpretation of the symbolic meaning of Cypriot Bronze Age funerary artefacts, including examples in the University of Canterbury's Logie Collection /

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Author / Creator:Washbourne, Rose Mary.
Imprint:Jonsered : P. Åströms förlag, 2000.
Description:393 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature. Pocket-book ; 158
Subject:
University of Canterbury.
University of Canterbury.
Pottery, Cypriot -- Themes, motives.
Bronze age -- Cyprus.
Tombs -- Cyprus.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Bronze age.
Civilization -- Middle Eastern influences.
Pottery, Cypriot -- Themes, motives.
Religion.
Tombs.
Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Cyprus.
Pottery, Cypriot -- Private collections -- New Zealand -- Christchurch.
Cyprus -- Religion.
Cyprus -- Civilization -- Middle Eastern influences.
Cyprus.
New Zealand -- Christchurch.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5284520
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ISBN:9170811059
Notes:Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Canterbury.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-393).
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Cyprus and Contentious Issues Among Scholars
  • 1.1. Cyprus: geographical perspectives
  • 1.2. Theories regarding cultural influences in the period leading up to the Bronze Age
  • 1.3. Questions of chronologies
  • 1.4. Theories regarding the role of grave goods
  • 1.5. Theories regarding symbolism
  • 1.6. Archaeological theory pertaining to the interpretation of symbols
  • 2. Plank Figures
  • 2.1. Plank Figures in the Logie Collection
  • 2.2. Free-standing Plank Figures: occurrence, role, varieties
  • 2.3. Images of deities: plurality, duality and double gender
  • 2.4. The identification of Plank Figures as Inanna-Ishtar
  • 2.5. The occurrence of Plank Figures on vessels
  • 2. Vessels
  • 3.1. Cypriot vessels: general
  • 3.2. 'Cult' vessels
  • 3.3. Incised motifs on Cypriot vessels
  • 3.4. Motifs applied in relief on Cypriot vessels
  • 3.5. Modelled motifs on Cypriot vessels
  • 3.6. Vessels as burial/grain containers and as symbols of regeneration
  • 3.7. Fertility and regeneration linked with vessels
  • 4. Interconnections I: Archaeological Evidence Suggesting Possible External Contacts
  • 4.1. Archaeological evidence suggesting contact with the Near East
  • 4.2. Archaeological evidence suggesting contact with Anatolia
  • 4.3. Archaeological evidence suggesting contact with Crete, the Cyclades, and other locations
  • 5. Interconnections II: Cult, Myth, and Religion
  • 5.1. Vegetation rites and rebirth
  • 5.2. The genealogy of Aphrodite: the transmission of Near Eastern myth and ritual into ancient Greece. App. I. Catalogue of Bronze Age Cypriot artefacts in the James Logie Memorial Collection
  • App. II. Find-spots and descriptions of tombs
  • App. III. Background: accession of the Bronze Age Cypriot artefacts to the Logie Collection.

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