The Seals from the Minoan Site of Chryssi Island: Local, Regional, and Global Implications

Five seals come from a Minoan site on the island of Chryssi, just off the southeastern coast of Crete. Four of these seals are sealstones, and one is the bezel of a metal seal ring. These seals are important as individual objects to allow for a deeper understanding of the people that inhabited Chryssi Island during the Bronze Age, but a further understanding of the site itself is also garnered by expanding the focus to include all of the seals of Crete. By doing so, this study allows for the discussion of regional interactions among the people of Chryssi and various other Minoan sites throughout Crete. The various approaches to seals come together to suggest the same conclusions, most notably that at least some of the people on Chryssi enjoyed a life of limited luxury through the control of various industries on the island, particularly the production of murex purple dye.

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Temple University. Libraries

Year dc:date.issued

2016

Author dc:creator

• Sarasin, Sydney

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Betancourt, Philip P., 1936-
• Evans, Jane DeRose, 1956-

Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember

• Evans, Jane DeRose, 1956-

• Art history
• Archaeology
• Ancient history
• Aegean
• Bronze age
• Chryssi
• Minoan
• Seal
• Signet

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/3526

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