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The two volume set LNCS 9256 and 9257 constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer
Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2015, held in Valletta,
Malta, in September 2015. The 138 papers presented were carefully
reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. CAIP 2015 is the
sixteenth in the CAIP series of biennial international conferences
devoted to all aspects of computer vision, image analysis and
processing, pattern recognition, and related fields.
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Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns - 16th International Conference, CAIP 2015, Valletta, Malta, September 2-4, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
George Azzopardi, Nicolai Petkov
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The two volume set LNCS 9256 and 9257 constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer
Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2015, held in Valletta,
Malta, in September 2015. The 138 papers presented were carefully
reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. CAIP 2015 is the
sixteenth in the CAIP series of biennial international conferences
devoted to all aspects of computer vision, image analysis and
processing, pattern recognition, and related fields.
Stones can serve an infinite array of functions both when they are
worked and when they are left in a 'raw' state. Depending on their
function, stones can also be meaningful objects especially when
they act as vehicles of ideas or instruments of representation. And
it is, therefore, in their functional context, that the meaning of
stones can be best grasped. The stones dealt with in this study are
non-figural (or aniconic) or, sometimes, semi-figural. They come
from ritual contexts and, as such, act as a material representation
of divine presence in their role as betyls. But it is not mainly
the representational aspect of these stones that this study seeks
to highlight. As material representations of divine presence that
are also worshipped, these particular stones form part of a
phenomenon that seems to know no geographical or temporal
boundaries. They are of a universal character. It is this universal
character of theirs that seems to qualify these stones as elements
forming part of the phenomenon of continuity: continuity across
different cultures and in different places along several centuries.
It is this phenomenon which this study seeks to highlight through a
study of these stones. The Maltese islands are presented as a case
study to demonstrate the phenomenon of continuity through a study
of these stones. Worship of stones in representation of divine
presence is found on the Maltese islands since prehistoric times.
But the practice survived several centuries under different
cultures represented by unknown communities during the islands'
prehistory and the Phoenicians / Carthaginians and the Romans in
early historic times.
The secluded sanctuary on the coastal promontory of Ras il-Wardija
on the central Mediterranean island of Gozo (near Malta)
constitutes another landmark on the religious map of the ancient
Mediterranean. Ritual activity at the sanctuary seems to be
evidenced from around the 3rd century BC to the 2nd century AD and,
possibly, even as late as the 4th century AD. This ritual activity
was focused in a small built temple and in a rock-cut cave that
seems to have incorporated a built extension in a later stage. But
the practised cult or cults were aniconic and remained so largely
throughout. This may explain why the sanctuary's excavators did not
report any findings of statuettes or any figural images.
Contemporaneously, figural images were also venerated on other
sites showing that, for a long while, iconism and aniconism
co-existed on the Maltese islands. There might have been more than
one deity venerated in this sanctuary. Dionysos could have been one
of them. But whoever they were, they are likely to have been
somehow connected with the sea and / or with a maritime community
or communities as the sanctuary itself evidently was.
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