"De Balneis" - a recap

[ReneZ]

Hi Marco,

I can think of several things, but nothing especially new.
Several of the Q13 pages look more like pools with real human beings, while others (esp. f77v) look like organs.
(I remember that Ellie Velinska once made a reasonably good point about one page representing the human ear.)

Now the interesting part is that, while f77v does not seem to be about baths, it still seems to be a parallel for the text in the Balneis. It could work very well without the women, as you say.

Now the baths are both meant for external use (bathing in it) and for internal use (drinking it).
So perhaps that's why the women also appear outside and inside (???).

On a more simple note, it could just be that the author/artist liked the idea of drawing women / nymphs there.

The exact role of nymphs in the zodiac section is also not entirely clear and could be figurative / allegorical.