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Pectoral Pendants from Grobnik in the Context of the Iron Age Symbol Aesthetics
Martina Blečić Kavur
orcid.org/0000-0002-7626-6484
; Univerza na Primorskem Fakulteta za humanistične študije Titov trg 5, Koper Slovenija
Sažetak
Objects, especially decorative ones, play a central role in the
mediation of heterogeneous social identities and their dimensions,
and jewellery and adornment were, in a way, a symbolical
representation of consciousness, thoughts, and form of existence. In
the (non)verbal communication of the Iron Age social structures,
the aesthetics of decorating oneself with symbolic jewellery has
always served as a mediator of social, ideological, and religious
concepts within their narrow community and within more
widely accepted trends. The pectoral pendants from Grobnik are
conceptually well-designed and artfully presented, and therefore, as
a medium of a specific metaphorical message, they are interesting
and suitable for new studies and various new understandings.
This article, therefore, elaborates on the typological-stylistic
analysis, iconographic syntax, comparison, and, where possible, the
archaeological context of the pendants, for their better chronological
positioning at the end of the Early Iron Age. Although their art
expression is essentially reduced to a sign/symbol, semantically
speaking, they were extremely powerful. As amulets, talismans,
or good luck charms, despite often being rather sketchy and in
a fragmented state, they mediated between the present and the
past, shaping identities through their physical and metaphysical
circulation, which is why their interpretation is presented from
different aspects, and with a wider understanding of the Iron
Age symbol aesthetics.
Ključne riječi
Grobnik; Iron Age; body; aesthetics; symbol; pendant semiotics
Hrčak ID:
230239
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Datum izdavanja:
15.11.2019.
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