https://www.academia.edu/128806170/Marthari_M_2024_The_Cycladic_nippled_ewer_The_female_shaped_vase_at_the_centre_of_beliefs_and_rituals_in_Akrotiri_on_Thera_%CE%9A%CF%85%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%80%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%87%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%82_%CE%A4%CE%BF_%CE%B3%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%81%CF%86%CE%BF_%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF_%CE%B5%CF%80%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%B5%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF_%CE%B4%CE%BF%CE%BE%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%8E%CE%BD_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9_%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B9%CF%8E%CE%BD_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF_%CE%91%CE%BA%CF%81%CF%89%CF%84%CE%AE%CF%81%CE%B9_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%98%CE%AE%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%82_Bilingual_edition_English_and_Greek_
This is a paper about the roles of women in the prehistoric Aegean. The long-lasting and ubiquitous presence of the nippled ewer at Akrotiri, Thera echoes in some way, in addition to its religious and cultic importance, the special presence of women, of the women in the Cyclades, the Kykladitisses, in the society of the time (the Middle and early Late Bronze Ages). There women played an important role at an economic and social level (as being involved in the exploitation of the precious plant, the crocus, as weavers, as priestesses, as mothers). It also reflects their particular significant moments in life (adulthood, marriage and childbirth) and the fact that their fertility, like the fertility of nature, was the basis for the renewal, cohesion and strength of the community.
The nippled ewers combine female with avian features and more specifically a woman’s body with two plastically rendered breasts on the front face below the neck with a bird’s head and often a bird’s craw, which are indicated by the beaked spout and the swelling below the neck of the vessel, respectively. It is very interesting to note here that the painted decoration of some nippled ewers includes female jewellery and sometimes non-anatomical eyes. Therefore, the Early Cycladic female marble figurines and the Middle Cycladic and Late Cycladic ceramic nippled ewers constitute two groups of different, distinctive objects that nevertheless share certain characteristics. These characteristics are either general, such as their large number and their wide distribution in the Cycladic islands, or they are completely specific, such as the plastic breasts, painted jewellery, and painted non-anatomical eyes, indicating that the female-shaped jugs are, to a certain extent, replacing their predecessors, the marble female figurines, as message transmitters. During the Late Cycladic I period the vessel was mainly manufactured at Akrotiri on Thera. The nippled ewers were produced there in large quantities and in two variations (with cut-away and with straight beaked spout), each with a stereotyped decoration. The excellent state of the town preservation helped in that large numbers survived to reach us. The nippled ewers are often found at Akrotiri in the place where the inhabitants left them when they abandoned the settlement. In several cases, they are even revealed neatly arranged in cupboards. The rich pictorial pottery repertoire of the Akrotiri final phase includes the painted nippled ewer. Studying the considerable corpus of the nippled ewers of Akrotiri’s final phase, one realizes that a single interpretative treatment of these vessels, despite their general common features, is not sufficiently subtle. This is because the nippled ewers of the two main variations in this phase show significant differences between themselves in terms of shape, decoration, context, and ultimately the function and messages they convey. Their separate examination helps us to understand many aspects of the Akrotiri society with which these vessels are associated.
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