05-01-2017, 07:03 PM
(05-01-2017, 06:06 PM)VViews wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Perhaps you will be luckier than me, but I could find only one more or less realistic representation of a seahorse:
Cordoba, Spain, mosaic from the Alcazar gardens.
This mosaic dates back to Roman times (2nd or 3rd C). It is visible in the Alcazar gardens today BUT was placed there in the 20thC. I don't know if/how/where it was visible during the middle ages.
![[Image: hippocampe-de-mosaque-20167302.jpg]](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/hippocampe-de-mosaque-20167302.jpg)
Interestingly, that one has the body of a seahorse, but the head resembles that of an actual (land) horse. In the VMS image it's really the head with the long thin snout that resembles a seahorse more than it resembles seemingly any dragon image.
Maybe it is just an unusual dragon, but it does seem that many illustrations in the VMS look like something they "shouldn't" look like more than they look like the thing they are supposedly based on.