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Elizabeth J. W Barber

Half-clad Minoan Women, Revisited

The possibility of complete female nudity on certain Minoan seals received much attention for nearly a century, until E. Kyriakidis demonstrated, through minute inspection of the artifacts, that virtually all of these figures are in fact clearly dressed, in apparently lightweight, ankle-length garments. The clear contrast between female figures thus becomes, not dressed vs. naked, but dressed in flounced overskirt vs. dressed but without such an overskirt.

Kadmos, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0022-7498
Volume: 44, 12/2005
Pages: 40 - 42

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