The Rosettes Page - March 2024

[ReneZ]

As I see it, the goal here with exploring the options for the meaning of the illustrations is not to definitively define the meaning of the entire manuscript but to try to give the people working on deciphering the text ideas to narrow down language options to explore. The people working on deciphering the text will decide which paths they want to explore.

I am not sure how that would work. There are dozens of pages in the MS where the object is clear. These could be used for that purpose. If narrowing down the langauge would be possible in this way, of course.

I have to say, I was very shocked by the number of diverse ideas that people have for just the Rosettes page. I don't know how long this message board/forum has been in operation but I am astounded that there is so little consensus on the meaning of even this one page.

Well, you just added one more. That's what been happening over the last 30 or so years since people had ready access to the illustrations in the MS.

I keep thinking of the parable of the blind men and an elephant.

Perhaps not a bad comparison, but of course, there is not a single person with good vision. Just a few who are not aware of their limitations.

The one thing that no good theory should lack is how this page relates to the rest of the MS, because there are dozens of signs that it does. It is full of recurring elements.
A theory that suggests that it stands by itself has that as a very weak point.