16-09-2016, 03:33 AM
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JKP
The absence of reference to warfare (except for one exception where a woman appears to be taken prisoner), is one of the several items which set the manuscript's imagery apart from the way in which Latin European imagery envisages the world and I agree with you that it is not found.
On the matter of those pipes - it's quite some time since I treated that section but I also concluded that pattern indicated an impervious material, the type used for pipes and channels. The most usual material was terracotta, though ceramic was also used.
As I recall (sorry, I dealt with that section some time ago so I'd need to check) the earliest use of terracotta pipes was pre-Roman, and we have terracotta containers [in the form of canisters] made for other purposes too from that time.
It looks altogether as though the custom of marking that material and/or such purpose by adding lines of dots wasn't new even by the fifteenth century.
Here's one of the oldest known examples of terracotta pipes, just for interest.
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In the military handbooks, I'd expect that terracotta (or ceramic) canisters, if sealed, might be a form of bomb or hand-grenade. Curiously enough, I've just published a picture of an object dated to c.12thC and which is thought to have served either as a pot-pouri jar or as a grenade. The museum opted to label it as the latter.
The absence of reference to warfare (except for one exception where a woman appears to be taken prisoner), is one of the several items which set the manuscript's imagery apart from the way in which Latin European imagery envisages the world and I agree with you that it is not found.
On the matter of those pipes - it's quite some time since I treated that section but I also concluded that pattern indicated an impervious material, the type used for pipes and channels. The most usual material was terracotta, though ceramic was also used.
As I recall (sorry, I dealt with that section some time ago so I'd need to check) the earliest use of terracotta pipes was pre-Roman, and we have terracotta containers [in the form of canisters] made for other purposes too from that time.
It looks altogether as though the custom of marking that material and/or such purpose by adding lines of dots wasn't new even by the fifteenth century.
Here's one of the oldest known examples of terracotta pipes, just for interest.
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In the military handbooks, I'd expect that terracotta (or ceramic) canisters, if sealed, might be a form of bomb or hand-grenade. Curiously enough, I've just published a picture of an object dated to c.12thC and which is thought to have served either as a pot-pouri jar or as a grenade. The museum opted to label it as the latter.
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