| Caption | Examples taken from the analysed seal image corpus of: a) different iconographic elements: a1 = man with open arms, passing by;a2=sitting woman, with parallel arms; a3 = passing caprid; a4 = vessel; b) fixed sub-patterns: b1 = a woman with open arms sitting on a bench carrying a vessel; b2 = two rampant lions in front of each other with an object in-between; c) overall image composition: c1 = image composed by three identical sub-patterns, each formed by two elements (Seal no. 4); c2 =image composed by two sub-patterns, each one subdivided into three smaller sub-patterns. Notice how the different elements and sub-patterns are associated to form a complex image (Seal no. 450). |
