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1 online resource (233 pages) |
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text file |
| 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). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English translation of Croatian original. |
| Subject |
Danilo culture -- Croatia -- Dalmatia.
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Danilo culture. |
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Croatia -- Dalmatia. |
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Pottery, Prehistoric -- Croatia -- Dalmatia.
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Pottery, Prehistoric. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Croatia -- Dalmatia.
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Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Antiquities.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology. |
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Antiquities. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Browne, Wayles, translator.
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Alt, Theresa F., translator.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rak, Omer. Rhyton from Danilo : Structure and Symbolism of a Middle Neolithic Cult-Vessel. Havertown : Oxbow Books, ©2011 9781842179772 |
| ISBN |
9781842175781 (electronic book) |
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1842175785 (electronic book) |
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1842179772 |
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9781842179772 |
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