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The Unidentified Floating Objects on Late Minoan Seal Iconography

Kyriakidis, Evangelos (2005) The Unidentified Floating Objects on Late Minoan Seal Iconography. American Journal of Archaeology, 109 . pp. 137-154. ISSN 0029114. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:1321)

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Abstract

This is the first article of a much larger project: its function is to prove that certain iconographical objects on Minoan gold signet rings are in fact constellations. This tenet has far-reaching consequences. The retracing of the Minoan sky not only can give us a huge insight into Minoan religion, mythology, calendar, agriculture, navigation and science, but can also change the trajectory of the field of archaeo-astronomy. So far, archaeo-astronomy holds that the origin of the classical constellations are to be traced in the near East and Mesopotamia. Though this might be indirectly true, it now seems that a much more likely source for the bronze-age constellation-pattern is Crete, since the Minoan constellations resemble the later Classical ones much more than any Near or Middle Eastern example.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Depositing User: Maureen Nunn
Date Deposited: 19 Dec 2007 18:52 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:40 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/1321 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
Kyriakidis, Evangelos: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7057-0568
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