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The ICON book is a revelation of the lives of the Aegean peoples drawn from the
hands of their own artists. ICON presents the images that are carved or chased on
Aegean seals and signets and interprets their meaning in the absence of accompanying
deciphered texts. Throughout their long floruit, the seals give the most extensive
illustrations of life as it was lived and imagined in Minoan Crete and Mycenaean
Greece in the Bronze Age. ICON, with its 1800 illustrations, is the first
comprehensive iconographic analysis of the Aegean seal images. ICON describes and
interprets the images through a dedicated vocabulary which recognizes their artistic
innovations and celebrates the detail of their sophisticated, nuanced and polyvalent
iconography. DE