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Dædalic, a. Archæol.|ˈdiːdəlɪk| Also Dedalic. [f. as Dædalian a. + -ic.] Designating a Greek sculptural style of the 7th century b.c., done in clay, metal, and stone, mainly in Dorian areas.
1931H. Payne Necrocorinthia xvi. 233 This is no place for a history of Daedalic sculpture. 1936R. J. H. Jenkins Dedalica i. ii. 10 The term ‘Dedalic’ so used is not entirely a term of convenience, for the monuments in question are closely bound to each other stylistically, and represent unquestionably the Creto-Peloponnesian or Dorian sculptural tradition of the seventh century, when Dedalus was apparently active in the districts. 1962R. W. Hutchinson Prehist. Crete xii. 340 Archaeologists have come to employ the term ‘Dedalic’ of the sculptural style characteristic of, though not confined to, Doric-speaking cities [in Crete] in the eighth and early seventh centuries b.c. Ibid. 342 The new Dedalic style affected not only figurines of clay or bronze and jewellery, but also had a notable effect on..the making of pithoi or large stone jars with moulded ornaments. |