Article Title：Faience goddesses and ivory bull-leapers: The aesthetics of sexual difference at Late Bronze Age Knossos
Abstract：
In the figurative art of Late Bronze Age Knossos one recognizes a singular form to the human body which cuts across all other distinctions. Contrary to popular and academic interpretations, sexed differences ar not marked in a clearly binary fashion. Drawing on this observation, the current paper analyses the relationship between two sets of figurines from the Bronze Age Palace site of Knossos: the faience figurines from the 'Temple Repositories' and the ivory bull-leaper figurines from the 'Domestic Quarter'. The interpretation of these figurines elucidates: a) how the appearance of sexual characteristics is context specific and not a general feature of the imagery; and b) the differing aesthetic responses motivated by and surrounding these two sets of artefacts and hence the social contexts in which representations of sexed differences were mobilized.
Keywords: Knossos; Bronze Age Aegean; figurines; aesthetics; gender; art; agency
DOI: 10.1080/00438240126808
Source：WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY
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