TY  - GEN
T1  - Wall paintings and social context : the Northeast Bastion at Ayia Irini
T2  - Keos (INSTAP Academic Press) ;
A1  - Morgan, Lyvia
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PB  - INSTAP Academic Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1130322068
AB  - "This book presents the results of the study of the wall paintings from the Northeast Bastion at Ayia Irini, situating them within the wider social context of the island of Kea and the Aegean world. Like the spectacularly well-preserved town of Akrotiri on Thera, with which these paintings are contemporary, Ayia Irini thrived 3,500 years ago. But unlike Akrotiri, Ayia Irini was not protected by a layer of volcanic ash. When the site was excavated in the 1960s-1970s by the University of Cincinnati under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the paintings had long since collapsed, fracturing into thousands of small pieces and becoming mixed with stones, broken pottery, and accumulated debris. This study attempts to bring the wall paintings back to life through the best-preserved fragments. Within the Northeast Bastion was a miniature frieze and, in the adjacent room, large-scale panels of plants. Human action set within townscapes, landscapes, and the sea presents a vivid account of the social life and environment of the people for whom this harbor town was vital within the trading network of the time. In this book the social implications of the fascinating and often unique iconography is explored, and the setting within a fortification wall is quite extraordinary. The volume contains many catalog entries, which contain color images of the fragments, and it is also abundantly illustrated with color drawings, visualizations, and photographs"--
OP  - 533
CN  - DF221.K36 M67 2020
SN  - 9781623034214
SN  - 1623034213
SN  - 9781931534970
SN  - 1931534977
KW  - Mural painting and decoration, Minoan : Greece : Kea.
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology) : Greece : Kea.
KW  - Minoans : Greece : Kea.
KW  - Bronze age : Greece : Kea.
KW  - Ayia Irini Site (Kea, Greece)
KW  - Kea (Greece) : Antiquities.
KW  - Ayia Irini (Kéa, Grèce : Site archéologique)
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Bronze age
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Minoans
KW  - Mural painting and decoration, Minoan
KW  - Greece : Ayia Irini Site (Kea)
KW  - Greece : Kea
ER  -