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Gill

fl. 1964

Scholar and cataloguer, active in 1964.

Life and work

  1. 1964

    1. Scholar of Aegean glyptic who in 1964 published the Enkomi cylinder seal now in the Cyprus Museum, Nicosia, and identified the motif on a Kourion hydria handle as a palm trunk.

      Robert Laffineur; Thomas G. Palaima, Animal-Human Interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late Bronze Age: Proceedings of the 18th International Aegean Conference (2021), p. 218

    2. Published the Enkomi cylinder seal now in the Nicosia Museum (AM 79, 1964, no. 46 pl. 6.2), cited for the Men and animals group.

      Aegean seals of the Late Bronze Age: stylistic groups (1986), p. 133

  2. Undated

    n.d.

    1. Cited for cylinder seals and seal impressions, including a seal from Cyprus (pl. 6:2) and a piece he considered a forgery; the passage discusses his catalogue of Minoan glyptic.

      Nanno Marinatos, Minoan Religion: Ritual, Image, and Symbol (1993), p. 288

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Sources

  1. 1.Robert Laffineur; Thomas G. Palaima, Animal-Human Interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late Bronze Age: Proceedings of the 18th International Aegean Conference (2021).
  2. 2.Nanno Marinatos, Minoan Religion: Ritual, Image, and Symbol (1993).
  3. 3.Aegean seals of the Late Bronze Age: stylistic groups (1986).

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