26-08-2016, 04:40 PM
Sorry to differ, guys, but I rather think the curator was talking stylistics. It would be automatic. It is stylistic similarities which are key indicators to the place and time an image belongs.
Syria of the 5th-6th century (and earlier) produces a whole lot of mosaics, and a whole lot of imagery which displays similar characteristics to imagery in the VMS calendar.
I mean, that is where and when we find the earliest image of a standing archer instead of a centaur (I've written about this and illustrated the Beth Alpha zodiac, which is one of the oldest examples).
I like the Delian 'panther' because it has the most in common with the Vms image, but also because people who came there came from all over the Greek speaking world, and in one Greco-Buddhist centre in early Afghanistan we have the maxims of Delphi carved in Carian script. (sorry, that's probably tmi).
I'll stop here - but let me say what a pleasure it is to see this happening - the study opening up to what the manuscript actually contains. And Hellenistic imagery (as I've explained and shown since 2010) forms the oldest chronological stratum in this manuscript.
It is my opinion that if those who weren't irrationally attached to a theory had at least refrained from ad.hominem campaigns, we might have moved on this much sooner.
D
Syria of the 5th-6th century (and earlier) produces a whole lot of mosaics, and a whole lot of imagery which displays similar characteristics to imagery in the VMS calendar.
I mean, that is where and when we find the earliest image of a standing archer instead of a centaur (I've written about this and illustrated the Beth Alpha zodiac, which is one of the oldest examples).
I like the Delian 'panther' because it has the most in common with the Vms image, but also because people who came there came from all over the Greek speaking world, and in one Greco-Buddhist centre in early Afghanistan we have the maxims of Delphi carved in Carian script. (sorry, that's probably tmi).
I'll stop here - but let me say what a pleasure it is to see this happening - the study opening up to what the manuscript actually contains. And Hellenistic imagery (as I've explained and shown since 2010) forms the oldest chronological stratum in this manuscript.
It is my opinion that if those who weren't irrationally attached to a theory had at least refrained from ad.hominem campaigns, we might have moved on this much sooner.
D