15-05-2016, 03:36 PM
To all,
for what it's worth in terms of general interest, I consider the 'ring' to be a debased version of the ankh or the situla, forms which devolve in vernacular (popular) art from the Hellenistic period to the 1st-2ndC AD, until they closely resemble each other.
I have examples, which illustrate this, including one from the early Ptolemaic (Greek) era - the period to which I assign the oldest stratum of the VMS imagery, and from about the 1stC AD, which marks another and major stage in the Voynich imagery's evolution.
For what it's worth.
If the object is read as having been originally a situla, then it would represent Sirius in the older way, though if an ankh, the star's identity is less obvious.
I read all the 'ladies' as meant for stars, btw, and their emblemata as intended to tell the reader which star is which, though this doesn't mean their significance is easily retrieved: their first enunciation is much older than the rise of the Arabs (7thC AD) and certainly older than the House of Wisdom in Baghdad (9th-10thC; survived until the 13th)
In the way the emblems now present - though carefully copied - I'd say they took their form no later than 1stC BC - 1stC AD. (not as old as Euclid, perhaps, but certainly older than Claudius Ptolemy).
for what it's worth in terms of general interest, I consider the 'ring' to be a debased version of the ankh or the situla, forms which devolve in vernacular (popular) art from the Hellenistic period to the 1st-2ndC AD, until they closely resemble each other.
I have examples, which illustrate this, including one from the early Ptolemaic (Greek) era - the period to which I assign the oldest stratum of the VMS imagery, and from about the 1stC AD, which marks another and major stage in the Voynich imagery's evolution.
For what it's worth.
If the object is read as having been originally a situla, then it would represent Sirius in the older way, though if an ankh, the star's identity is less obvious.
I read all the 'ladies' as meant for stars, btw, and their emblemata as intended to tell the reader which star is which, though this doesn't mean their significance is easily retrieved: their first enunciation is much older than the rise of the Arabs (7thC AD) and certainly older than the House of Wisdom in Baghdad (9th-10thC; survived until the 13th)
In the way the emblems now present - though carefully copied - I'd say they took their form no later than 1stC BC - 1stC AD. (not as old as Euclid, perhaps, but certainly older than Claudius Ptolemy).