Icona Databases: The Iconography Of Aegean Bronze Historic Menstruum Glyptic

[First posted inwards AWOL fourteen May 2014, updated 29 Jan 2019]

IconA Databases: the iconography of Aegean Bronze Age glyptic

 

The IconAegean Databases

• IconAegean 1.2
• IconAData 1.2
• IconADict 1.2

Janice Crowley has created 3 Databases, IconAegean, IconAData together with IconADict, to explore the iconography of Aegean Bronze Age glyptic. The Databases were launched at the Institute for Classical Archaeology at Heidelberg University, the 2 IconA Databases on Fri 2 May 2014 together with the IconAegean Database on twenty June 2016, together with they are similar a shot freely available on the CMS Website. They are dependent champaign exclusively to the commons protocol of acknowledging the root of the information inwards whatever query or publication that uses the Databases, inwards this case CMS Heidelberg together with IconAegean.

The IconAegean Database

This Database holds all the seals inwards the CMS Volumes: 9,181 seals, signets together with sealings giving 10,972 designs on seal faces. Each pattern is shown every bit a drawing of the impression together with described inwards a measure vocabulary particularly created for Aegean glyptic iconography, the IconA Classification. CMS information is likewise provided. All information may hold upwards searched past times Key Words across whatever of the Database fields.

It is similar a shot possible to guild all these seal faces iconographically past times sorting on the IconA Code field. Once that kind is performed all the images on the seal faces volition hold upwards placed inwards guild according to the IconA Classification starting amongst human figures, stylised humans together with human artefacts, together with thence moving through fantastic creations, fauna, body of body of water life together with flora, together with on through geometric, script together with miscellaneous. Users may together with thence click through the Corpus enjoying the collections of similar images every bit they seem inwards sequence. This provision for organizing the seal images according to their iconography is a outset inwards Aegean fine art studies.

 

At introduce to a greater extent than information is beingness uploaded into the IconAegean Database inwards the iconographic together with CMS fields. The outset 3 iconographic fields (the Category, Theme together with Icon fields) are already consummate together with may hold upwards searched for total results. Searching on other fields will, at present, exclusively hand incomplete results. However, role of the Category, Theme together with Icon fields volition render a user-friendly access into the iconography of Aegean seals.  

The IconAData Database

This Database holds one thousand seal designs particularly chosen to illustrate the attain of Aegean seal iconography. The selection has been made generally from the CMS archives exactly likewise includes about other seven gilt signets. It is ready inwards the same format every bit the IconAegean Database.

The IconADict Database

This Database holds the Dictionary of the Key Words including the 590 iconographic damage of the IconA Classification which pull the seal designs. These Key Words are defined together with are used to search on the fields inwards the IconAegean together with IconAData Databases. There are likewise Key Word entries roofing the CMS terms, Database explanations for working amongst FileMaker Pro together with Notes to aid the User. The 590 Key Words comprising the iconographic damage of the IconA Classification are likewise discussed inwards the Author’s Aegaeum 34 Volume, The Iconography of Aegean Seals.