The Mysterious Ritual Enclosed in the Phaistos Disc and the Kernos Stone - Softcover

Rio, Roberta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1467880892 ISBN 13: 9781467880893

Publisher: AuthorHouseUK, 2012

Synopsis

Sometimes there are places that we find particularly attractive; places where we want to stay because something that is beyond our understanding calls to us. What I am about to describe to you belongs to this type of situation. The Phaistos Disc is a mystery. It belongs to that group of objects which are not interpretable through the classic historical-archaeological method. The Kernos Stone, however, is not considered to be a mystery: it is simply thought to be a surface for offerings. For traditional scholars, it is obvious what unites the Phaistos Disc to the Kernos Stone: they are both artifacts that belong to the archaeological heritage of Crete. Nothing more. But if we link these two objects in our imagination and, indeed, put one on top of the other, perhaps in the same place and at a specific day of the year, we would not only get the solution to an enigma, but also the magic combination to open the mystery that unites them and encloses them: an ancient ritual in which they were used together.

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About the Author

Roberta Rio was born in 1973. She could briefly be described as a "historian of the Beyond". She became a historian in the area of Classical Studies in the traditional sense with a degree in Medieval History from the University of Trieste (Italy) in 1996. She presented her thesis entitled "Catalogue of Books in the Italian Middle Ages from the Fifth to the Twelfth Century", with which, for the first time since Gustav Becker and his "Catalogi Bibliothecarum Antiqui" (Bonn,1885), the medieval catalogues ware re-examined. Her passion for inscriptions, manuscripts and the ancient development of writing, Greek and Latin brought her to the State Archives in Trieste, where she obtained a degree (Ph.D.) in Archiving, Palaeography and Diplomatics in 1997. To complete her degree, she received two scholarships to attend the Association of Palaeographers and Diplomaticians in Fermo (Italy) and the Inter-University Centre for Franciscan Studies in Assisi. Already during her studies, she began to show great interest in "going beyond borders". On the one hand in a physical sense, thanks to two grants from the Italian Foreign Ministry; she studied at the University of Malta in La Valletta in 1994 and the year after at the University of Oslo (Norway). After graduation, it was impossible for her to find employment in her professional area, where she could use and develop her ability to do "traditional" research: Life evidently wanted her to do a different way. She then redirected these abilities to other work environments that respected, however, her desire for multiculturalism, for a variety of languages, for meeting people and having people meet; for going beyond borders. It is perhaps here that her peculiarity lies: in the need to go beyond borders. Beyond those of nations, by visiting countries other than her home and learning their languages; beyond those of her body, by dancing in the living interaction with others; beyond th

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouseUK
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1467880892
• ISBN 13: 9781467880893
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40