It helps to actually read De Balneis.
Some of the scenes in the VMS do appear to illustrate similar concepts, but sometimes from a different angle from other illustrated descriptions.
So assuming the VMS illustrator was familiar with one or more of these natural spas (they are extremely numerous, much more than I realized before I started studying them), either they've been drawn from personal experience, or from an exemplar that no longer exists, or it was derived from a textual exampler with no images, or... the illustrator deliberately chose to draw it from a different angle, perhaps to accommodate the text.
It also helps to read the in-depth research done by Fikret Yegül before dismissing the similarities:
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Some of the scenes in the VMS do appear to illustrate similar concepts, but sometimes from a different angle from other illustrated descriptions.
So assuming the VMS illustrator was familiar with one or more of these natural spas (they are extremely numerous, much more than I realized before I started studying them), either they've been drawn from personal experience, or from an exemplar that no longer exists, or it was derived from a textual exampler with no images, or... the illustrator deliberately chose to draw it from a different angle, perhaps to accommodate the text.
It also helps to read the in-depth research done by Fikret Yegül before dismissing the similarities:
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