28-12-2020, 10:02 PM
That's a good observation, bi3mw.
I think the difference between standing overtop and being submerged is that in all these examples, the waterbody in question (being stood upon) is not a standalone body, it is a part of a larger body that is being discussed.
For instance, i believe the one on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is the Gulf of Lion, the shoreline represented from Cartagena to Genoa is actually pretty straight besides this gulf and the promontory at Valencia, which is also dealt with, so it is a way to indicate this while obfuscating the true shape of the shoreline. If they had then wanted to discuss the bay itself, they would have drawn it larger and filled it with nymphs standing for the other important regions within it. As it stands, it is not the topic at hand, just a part of its description, a mnemonic for drawing the shoreline differently at that point.
The ones on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are the Gibraltar strait and bay respectively, but it is more important that we are talking about the area between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, opposing Africa; the bay itself isn't what makes Gibraltar what it is, per se, plus it is tiny in comparison to the region discussed. The clashing rocks on the bottom indicate to me a bosphorus, which is much more indicative of Gibraltar's place in the world (even though the bosphorus that the original clashing rocks, (or Symplegades), indicated are elsewhere in time and place, but do have the correlation to Pillars of Hercules connotation of Gibraltar and Ceuta, (Hercules was one of the Argonauts) and the name of nearby Gades or Cadiz, which also has a Pillars connection).
The ones on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are reservoirs, bays, and deltas of the Tigris Euphrates river system.
When the nymphs are submerged, it is the water body they are in that makes up the greater community that is being discussed in that diagram.
I think the difference between standing overtop and being submerged is that in all these examples, the waterbody in question (being stood upon) is not a standalone body, it is a part of a larger body that is being discussed.
For instance, i believe the one on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is the Gulf of Lion, the shoreline represented from Cartagena to Genoa is actually pretty straight besides this gulf and the promontory at Valencia, which is also dealt with, so it is a way to indicate this while obfuscating the true shape of the shoreline. If they had then wanted to discuss the bay itself, they would have drawn it larger and filled it with nymphs standing for the other important regions within it. As it stands, it is not the topic at hand, just a part of its description, a mnemonic for drawing the shoreline differently at that point.
The ones on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are the Gibraltar strait and bay respectively, but it is more important that we are talking about the area between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, opposing Africa; the bay itself isn't what makes Gibraltar what it is, per se, plus it is tiny in comparison to the region discussed. The clashing rocks on the bottom indicate to me a bosphorus, which is much more indicative of Gibraltar's place in the world (even though the bosphorus that the original clashing rocks, (or Symplegades), indicated are elsewhere in time and place, but do have the correlation to Pillars of Hercules connotation of Gibraltar and Ceuta, (Hercules was one of the Argonauts) and the name of nearby Gades or Cadiz, which also has a Pillars connection).
The ones on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are reservoirs, bays, and deltas of the Tigris Euphrates river system.
When the nymphs are submerged, it is the water body they are in that makes up the greater community that is being discussed in that diagram.