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    A View from the Sea

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    Issue Date
    2011
    Author
    Younger, John G.
    Publisher
    The Danish Institute at Athens
    Type
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    Article Version
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    Abstract
    This study takes a close look at the Naval Fresco from the West House at Akrotiri, Thera (end of the 17th c. B.C.), describing it as an illustrated naval voyage — not enough is preserved to know where the voyage may have gone, but the fantastic element at the end, the Niolitic scene, may indicate a long and distant voyage. It also looks at other, early indications of a sense of geography (e.g., the orderly list of sites in the Pylos tablets, the embassy of Amenhotep III to the Aegean) and compares the fresco's length and height to actual papyrus maps from Egypt and its illustrations to the late Roman Peutinger Tabula and to Medieval Portalans. Finally, this study tries to account for the inclusion of rare every-day scenes in the fresco, incorporating theories of viewing and the gaze.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7152
    ISBN
    978-87-7934-571-3
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    Citation
    "A View from the Sea." In: The Seascape in Aegean Prehistory (Monographs of the Danish Institute in Athes 14), edited by Giorgos Vavouranakis, pp. 161-83. Athens: Danish Institute of Archaeology 2011.

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