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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- Danilo culture -- Croatia -- Dalmatia
- Pottery, Prehistoric -- Croatia -- Dalmatia
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Croatia -- Dalmatia
- Dalmatia -- Antiquities
- Culture de Danilo-Kakanj -- Croatie -- Dalmatie
- Fouilles (Archéologie) -- Croatie -- Dalmatie
- HISTORY -- Ancient -- General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology
- Antiquities
- Danilo culture
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Pottery, Prehistoric
- Croatia -- Dalmatia
- 939.8
- GN776.2.D3 R35 2011
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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.
"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).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index.
English translation of Croatian original.
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