(14-08-2016, 10:43 AM)Sam G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So, nobody else has a comment on this? The goat mosaic find in particular provides the only known example of an image in the VMS that appears to have been directly copied from the same source as some other image. You might think such a find would be considered significant.
I must say, the silence here is deafening.
Near as I can tell, you have shown an example from Libya, and one from Tunisia. What is the same source, exactly?
I went to my old computer to see if I had saved a copy of the one I said I'd seen before, but couldn't find anything so I don't know if it's a case of deja vu or whether I actually saw it, but I could swear it was a blue leopard with a palm tree behind, and if it's not your example then perhaps it's one in the same tradition as you say, so I really was hoping to find it, but no luck. If I come across it I will let you know for sure.
I don't understand why people think it is a palm tree, though, why can it not just be the lion's tail in the drawing? Seems the simplest idea. I did see a copy of your mosaic example that said it was an olive tree, although it was on a stock picture site so who knows, not likely an expert involved there, and I couldn't find any other reference to it. But, do you know what they call the trimming that results in a tree that looks like that? Lion tailing.
Insofar as the goat, yes, similar, but I wouldn't say a definite copy job. Like all the different forms of art involving these animals, yes there are similarities, but again nothing that can confirm anything.
(04-08-2016, 01:18 PM)Sam G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:I don't really see any other connections, do you?
You mean beyond being a blue leopard with a very similar looking tree in the background?
No, I'll give you that. I meant with the other mosaics that had made up the floor with your example. For instance the fish do not match the fish in the manuscript.