f70v2 Circular Pattern and Greek Pottery Border Designs

[Sam G]

There's a certain similarity between the design found around the central roundel on f70v2 (Pisces/March) and a border design commonly found on classical Greek pottery.  Here's a comparison:

   


It's not an exact match of course, but in both cases we see small segments with a "four way" division separated by segments of 2-3 times their width containing "zigzag" patterns.  It's also not hard to imagine that the simpler zigzag patterns we see in the VMS could have arisen from the "stepped meander" patterns of the Greek design via several generations of imprecise copying.

Of course, the resemblance could be completely coincidental, so what I'd like to know is if anyone knows of other patterns similar to the one found in the VMS, especially if there are any in the medieval Latin manuscript tradition.