F79r as Mesopotamia

[Linda]

It's hard to say. There are so many bodies of waters that connect in so many different ways, basic shapes could be matched to many of them.

If i were reading to you about a place where a freshwater river rises from a volcanic area, travels through a mountainous area where another river rises, both running in a southerly direction, roughly parallel to each other,  then joining up, becoming a single river which creates a silty brackish delta comprised of large curved bays and sandbars, how many places could you envision? 

What if i told you it was a place you would find on an ancient world map?

It is also not just there by itself in the middle of nowhere, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is the facing page, with volcano filled salty Lake Urmia, and freshwater Lake Sevan, which are located just east of where the Euphrates rises. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. And You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is next, with Gujarat in India, then on to the Red Sea, continuing on the Asia and Africa tour.

Insofar as basic shapes being matched to many water bodies, that may be true, but i would expect this one to rank high in being chosen if i said to pick the pool that most resembles the Persian Gulf out of all the pools in the quire. In fact i got the idea to look from the rosettes, the one connected to the TO map has seven waves, so i went looking for the seven seas of medieval times, and found references in the quire to not only those, but the marginal seas as well. 

I suppose nothing based on the images will be accepted until it completely matches some precedent, or if the text is translated and the context is revealed.  But in revisiting my interpretation, i have found further specifics in the drawings that have only made me more confident of the meaning i see in it. I don't think i am bending and shaping to fit a story, if i am, i'm unaware. I think the story is there to be seen.