05-10-2019, 08:31 PM
(05-10-2019, 07:02 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My very first thoughts upon seeing the rosettes page were either that it was a record of a journey (like a visual journal), or an itinerary map in strip-map form, or possibly a reference to Jerusalem, the New Jerusalem (or maybe Rome). It has always looked like a map to me.
I had a very literal interpretation of it for a long time. Now I'm trying to look at it in as many different ways as possible.
To honest, it was really that page that sparked my interest and more specifically the "castle", it looked like a map of a fantasy world as though it was out of Lord of the Rings. In fact if it were carbon dating to the 20th century then I would say it was a fantasy map and not a real map. I was aware of the carbon dating, so I knew it was an ancient document otherwise I would have probably not paid so much attention to it, so to avoid the risk of wasting my time on a modern forgery. I found the script interesting. My initial thoughts were that it was a natural language in an unknown script, maybe like the Croatian Glagolitic script. However I came to conclusion that it was a cipher in a made up script. I have very little interest in plants or astrology and I haven't yet felt the need to delve in that area much. I have spent a lot of time studying diplomatic ciphers as is clear and my recent research has lead me to studying labelese as I have thought for some this area could be enlightening. Studying labelese has pushed my research in a specific direction. Unfortunately the current task I have found myself occupied with is slow and fairly tedious as it involves the manual inspection of data, I will get through it, but it will probably take some time. I thought it important to disseminate some of my ideas about the 9 rosette page, so others can see them if they have any interest, and it is easier here than on Nick's page as you can attach images. At some point I will go public with my whole theory of the page, but I don't feel ready to yet; part of the problem is that it has so many details that I was unsure how to present them and I haven't yet completed a long write up. Also, I don't think I will realistically be able to fit all my analysis in one paper for the Journal, even if I decide I think it a good idea to publish there.