The rhyton from Danilo : structure and symbolism of a middle Neolithic cult-vessel / Omer Rak, translated by Theresa Alt and Wayles Browne.

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Rak, Omer [author.]

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Croatian Publisher: Oxford ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, 2011Description: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781842175781
1842175785

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rhyton from Danilo : Structure and Symbolism of a Middle Neolithic Cult-Vessel.DDC classification:

939.8

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GN776.2.D3 R35 2011

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Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgements; Preface to the English Edition; Foreword; Introduction: Archaeology and the Symbol; 1 The Find; 2 The Cultural Sphere of the Rhyton; 3 A Bear or ...?; 4 Cinnabar; 5 Shamans; 6 A Snake, Water and Horns; 7 A Spiral (Double); 8 Th e Vulva and the Plough; 9 The Androgyne; 10 The Phallus; 11 Conclusion; Plates; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: "The so called rhyton from Danilo, an archaeological site near the coastal town of Sibenik in Dalmatia, Croatia, is a four-legged Neolithic vessel made of fired clay that according to the consensus of archaeological opinion was most likely a cult vessel used in rituals of unknown origin and content. "Danilo Culture" is the eponymous name bestowed on a culture flourishing in the period from about 5500-4500 BC at Danilo and at some neighbouring sites. This culture had great influence along the eastern Adriatic coast and its hinterland and produced a significant number of these vessels. Rhyta, which other Neolithic cultures also made, were dispersed throughout a vast area of southeast Europe, from Greece to the Alps. This book is an in-depth study of that mysterious, prehistoric archaeological artifact which, due to its antiquity, structure and symbolism, has become a kind of universal proto-matrix for all relevant mythological and spiritual structures of the Mediterranean zone of later, historic times."--JSTOR website (viewed April 10, 2017).

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"The so called rhyton from Danilo, an archaeological site near the coastal town of Sibenik in Dalmatia, Croatia, is a four-legged Neolithic vessel made of fired clay that according to the consensus of archaeological opinion was most likely a cult vessel used in rituals of unknown origin and content. "Danilo Culture" is the eponymous name bestowed on a culture flourishing in the period from about 5500-4500 BC at Danilo and at some neighbouring sites. This culture had great influence along the eastern Adriatic coast and its hinterland and produced a significant number of these vessels. Rhyta, which other Neolithic cultures also made, were dispersed throughout a vast area of southeast Europe, from Greece to the Alps. This book is an in-depth study of that mysterious, prehistoric archaeological artifact which, due to its antiquity, structure and symbolism, has become a kind of universal proto-matrix for all relevant mythological and spiritual structures of the Mediterranean zone of later, historic times."--JSTOR website (viewed April 10, 2017).