Why the rosettes image may not be a map at all

[MarcoP]

If the Nine Rosettes is a map of the surface of the earth, what other map of earth's surface displays such a feature? Here are the oceans, here is the land, the mountains, the plains, and here is a cosmic boundary - on the surface of the earth. Really??

This is assumed to be a representation if the idealistic Jerusalem.

Good point. The heavenly Jerusalem was represented like this:


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Yet the heavenly Jerusalem is not the earthly Jerusalem. The city that appears at the center of many medieval European world maps is the earthly one. It would be interesting to see one with the nebuly line in a a world map.