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Images in opposition: polarity, ambivalence and liminality in cult representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Miranda J. Green
Miranda J. Green*
Affiliation:
SCARAB Research Centre, University of Wales College Newport, Caerleon Campus, P.O. Box 179, Newport NP6 1YG, Wales. m.aldhouse-green@newport.ac.uk
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Abstract

The concept of ‘Celtic’ is fittingly ambiguous, ambivalent and disputed in its archaeological definition: ‘fittingly’ because later prehistoric and Roman iconography in temperate Europe is ambiguous and ambivalent. And ambiguous and ambivalent things are hard to understand unambiguously!

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 274 , December 1997 , pp. 898 - 911
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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