Metaphor and Maltese Art: Explorations in the Temple Period

Caroline Malone

doi:10.1558/jmea.v21i1.81

Metaphor and Maltese Art: Explorations in the Temple Period

Caroline Malone

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Abstract

Temple Period Malta in the 3rd millennium BC saw the production of a range of figurative and decorative art and architecture that implies a richly populated spiritual and cognitive world associated with ritual practice in life and death. The paper explores the potential to categorize the figurative art into distinct groups, and how these various images might represent aspects of the cosmology and social concerns of a prehistoric island society.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	81-109
Number of pages	29
Journal	Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology
Volume	21
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1558/jmea.v21i1.81
Publication status	Published - 2008

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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Archaeology
Geography, Planning and Development

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Metaphor and Maltese Art: Explorations in the Temple Period

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Invitation to devise and run long-term programme of field research in Gozo, Malta.

Hypogea and the clubhouse: Neolithic Malta's houses of the living and the dead.

Figurines of Malta

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Invitation to devise and run long-term programme of field research in Gozo, Malta.

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Hypogea and the clubhouse: Neolithic Malta's houses of the living and the dead.

Figurines of Malta

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