Data Bases about Aegean Subjects DBAS: Cretan Hieroglyphic Seals
The database, as a digital study of the wide corpus of Middle Minoan Glyptic, can raise every single association among the different elements of the seal set, considering graphic and iconographic elements at the same level. In this way every association pattern is verifiable and possibly some of the elements which are traditionally considered simply iconographic could be reconsidered as part of the Hieroglyphic system and viceversa.
This database, processing the data, produces a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the recurrences, founded on statistic grounds. First we devised three main steps in filing the seals, which move from general to particular:
- Identification
- Description
- Classification
- For a better use you may download and install the MinoSignsWeb font.
- Alternatively you may refer to the Table CHIC numbering
- Cretan Hieroglyphic bibliography