eprintid: 35921
rev_number: 16
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datestamp: 2025-01-21 15:01:35
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creators_name: Andreovits, Stamatia Tatiana
title: Human Body Fragmentation in the Micrographic Images of Aegean Bronze Age Seals
subjects: ddc-930
divisions: i-71750
cterms_swd: Bronze Age
cterms_swd: Seals
cterms_swd: Body
abstract: This paper aims to explore the concept of human body fragmentation in Bronze Age miniature iconography. The analysis incorporates body and gender theory to examine miniature body fragments depicted in Bronze Age Aegean seal images. While seals and sealings are often preserved in fragmentary states, body fragmentation can also be discerned in purposeful depictions of specific body parts intertwined with other iconographic motifs. Body parts are portrayed in hieroglyphic seals, so-called ‘portrait heads’, and are also incorporated into hybrid bodies. In addition to depicting fragmented bodies, miniature iconography presents numerous seemingly whole bodies. However,the depiction of the human body was neither uniform throughout the Bronze Age nor a consolidated entity. Even when portrayed as complete, its representation remains fragmentary due to the presence of multiple identities, e.g. gender or social status. This analysis seeks to explore the role of multiple representations of the human body as well as the viewing process in the constitution of a seemingly whole but at the same time fragmented body.
date: 2024
publisher: Presses universitaires de Louvain
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00035921
ppn_swb: 1915393620
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-359218
language: eng
bibsort: ANDREOVITSHUMANBODYF2024
full_text_status: public
series: Aegis
volume: 29
place_of_pub: Louvain-la-Neuve
pagerange: 65-87
isbn: 978-2-39061-528-6
book_title: ScapeCon 2022: Towards an Archaeology of Fragmentation in the Aegean Bronze Age
editors_name: Claeys, Thérèse
editors_name: Dautais, Louis
editors_name: Dubois, Roxane
editors_name: Regnier, Killian
editors_name: Tsafou, Evgenia
editors_name: Vendramin, Daniele
editors_name: Wolf, Diana
citation:   Andreovits, Stamatia Tatiana  (2024) Human Body Fragmentation in the Micrographic Images of Aegean Bronze Age Seals.  [Book Section]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/35921/7/Andreovits_Human_Body_2024.pdf