Löwe – Krieger – Wächterin? Neue Erkenntnisse zum spätminoischen Siegel AGD München I 1, 87 in der Staatlichen Münzsammlung München
(2022) Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte — Vol. 72, p. 213-224 (2022)
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- This contribution presents a revisited interpretation of a Minoan seal in the Staatliche Münzsammlung Munich. To date, its imagery was identified as representing two male figures catching, overpowering, and trussing a lion. Such depictions constitute a common topos in Late Bronze Age Aegean glyptic. A recent study of the piece, however, questions the prevailing interpretation of the Munich seal. A close microscopic inspection of the seal leads to the conclusion that one of the figures represented on the seal face is, in fact, very likely female and possibly represents a religious authority involved in a rite of passage. The present article sets forth the new observations made during the study of the object in the repository of the Staatliche Münzsammlung and suggests, based on these and the current state of research, a revised and expanded interpretation of the seal imagery.
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Wolf, D. (2022). Löwe – Krieger – Wächterin? Neue Erkenntnisse zum spätminoischen Siegel AGD München I 1, 87 in der Staatlichen Münzsammlung München. Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte, 72, 213-224. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/268879 (Original work published 2022)