15-02-2022, 10:41 PM
If you turn the T-O diagram upside down, the label in "Asia" stands almost vertically. I'm really not sure if these labels had the function of indicating the orientation of this detail. One might also wonder then why the T-O diagram is not placed as intended in relation to the rosette itself.
For the spiral, I think a good case can be made that it would have been seen as a scroll being rolled up, as in the text of Revelation. They were familiar with this concept, for example on banderoles (scrolls as speech bubbles). We included some examples in the post.
For the spiral, I think a good case can be made that it would have been seen as a scroll being rolled up, as in the text of Revelation. They were familiar with this concept, for example on banderoles (scrolls as speech bubbles). We included some examples in the post.