I'm certainly not against analyzing labels.
I'm all for it, in fact.
What I'd like to see is analysis of labels in relation to the whole manuscript, not just to the small image next to it that we don't fully understand.
I used Ruby's label interpretation as an example because it DOES show up elsewhere in the VMS, in the T-O map, in the position for Africa/south... I'm not saying it is definitely a T-O map, even though it looks very much like one, or that it definitely means Africa or south (or something related), but we should NOT be trying to evaluate the label on the pool page BY ITSELF when it matches Vwords elsewhere, especially those associated with other images.
Maybe they're related. Maybe they're not. But I don't think it's helpful to look at labels through a little soda straw, one word at a time, without considering how that Vord occurs elsewhere.
There's no evidence (so far) to indicate that oKa is a root word and very little support for the idea that the word, as a whole, might mean "dream". It's only one of many possibilities and listing the possibilities is a better strategy than jumping on the first thing that seems to work and then ignoring the rest.
I'm all for it, in fact.
What I'd like to see is analysis of labels in relation to the whole manuscript, not just to the small image next to it that we don't fully understand.
I used Ruby's label interpretation as an example because it DOES show up elsewhere in the VMS, in the T-O map, in the position for Africa/south... I'm not saying it is definitely a T-O map, even though it looks very much like one, or that it definitely means Africa or south (or something related), but we should NOT be trying to evaluate the label on the pool page BY ITSELF when it matches Vwords elsewhere, especially those associated with other images.
Maybe they're related. Maybe they're not. But I don't think it's helpful to look at labels through a little soda straw, one word at a time, without considering how that Vord occurs elsewhere.
There's no evidence (so far) to indicate that oKa is a root word and very little support for the idea that the word, as a whole, might mean "dream". It's only one of many possibilities and listing the possibilities is a better strategy than jumping on the first thing that seems to work and then ignoring the rest.