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Seal from Makrygialos (LM I). Tree next to a shrine or ikrion. Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos, no. 4653. Credits: Courtesy of Dr Wedde. CMS I. Suppl. 193. Source: Wedde 2000: 339 Catalogue number 907.
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…Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks…. ―Wassily Kandinsky (Selbstbetrachtungen, Dokumente. Berlin: 1913: 89)
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... are many depictions of ships accompanied by objects that do not stand on the 38 Kyriakidis 2005: 146, 150-153. tree grows on a shrine or a planter (LM IB), 39 a seal from Makrygialos (LM I) with a tree at the place where the mast would have been -according to Wedde, next to an ikrion or a shrine ( figure 6). 40 Additionally, the Ring of Minos with a tree on a similar construction, but not into the ship ( figure 2; figure 7), etc. ...
