I've always assumed the head is on the right (even though the "scales" go the wrong way) because it looks like a tucked-under head and the left looks sort of like a tail, but... if you take out that little round circle that looks like an eye then it would be possible to interpret it as a somewhat fishy tail and who knows... maybe the left side was unfinished and someone added a tail.
The nose of one of the zodiacs was added by someone else, some of the missing breasts may have been added by someone else, so I suppose it's possible someone else might have thought the right-hand side was a head, rather than a tail and might have added a tail on the left of an unfinished drawing.
If we take out the parts where the ink is darker, we're left with something like this:
The nose of one of the zodiacs was added by someone else, some of the missing breasts may have been added by someone else, so I suppose it's possible someone else might have thought the right-hand side was a head, rather than a tail and might have added a tail on the left of an unfinished drawing.
If we take out the parts where the ink is darker, we're left with something like this:


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