The Rosettes Page - March 2024

[Mark Knowles]

That does not mean that we must ignore art history and let our imagination run free.

How do feel that I am ignoring art history? I have obviously used a lot of imagination/thought in my own analysis of the page, which I don't see as problematic. I like to think that I have applied my imagination within a logical framework. I hope to elaborate the steps that I went through in constructing the theory step by step. I started from Nick Pelling's identifications and despite my initial considerable doubts found them very plausible, although I certainly came over time to disagree with him regarding the Central Rosette.

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Just a personal impression, it seems to me that everybody has their own ideas about the Rosettes page, even people who usually try to avoid peculating.

The idea that the page is a map is obviously a theory that a number of people have expounded over the years. Though of course there have been varied opinions as to where it is a map of.