17-09-2016, 12:12 PM
Koen,
Personally I think "refer" is quite ok when we don't whether, or to what degree, the original maker(s) and users meant the token images in the 'roots and leaves section' literally.
btw, I prefer that description "roots and leaves" section to 'pharma'' section, given that there is no evidence that anything in it refers to, or depicts, pharmaceutical ingredients.
In fact, some of the few among those items on which others have agreed is my identification of the luffa - when very young it could be eaten as a vegetable, but its chief use was as a form of sandpaper, chiefly used in carpentry (not back-scrubbing) before the modern era.
That reminds me - I've never checked to see if there is any date known for its first introduction to Europe.
PS I have to agree with you that there appears to be no interest in animal products, and that the item directly below that block I identified as wrapped indigo (thanks for liking the id), is formed as an eastern pennon or flag, and is dark blue, and has a label most of which is formed by the same 'vord' as that written by the block. Colour-form-historical documentation etc. I stand by the analysis and conclusion on that one. Others of course may be able to provide an alternative analysis, historical documentation and so forth. But no-one has yet, I think.
Personally I think "refer" is quite ok when we don't whether, or to what degree, the original maker(s) and users meant the token images in the 'roots and leaves section' literally.
btw, I prefer that description "roots and leaves" section to 'pharma'' section, given that there is no evidence that anything in it refers to, or depicts, pharmaceutical ingredients.
In fact, some of the few among those items on which others have agreed is my identification of the luffa - when very young it could be eaten as a vegetable, but its chief use was as a form of sandpaper, chiefly used in carpentry (not back-scrubbing) before the modern era.
That reminds me - I've never checked to see if there is any date known for its first introduction to Europe.
PS I have to agree with you that there appears to be no interest in animal products, and that the item directly below that block I identified as wrapped indigo (thanks for liking the id), is formed as an eastern pennon or flag, and is dark blue, and has a label most of which is formed by the same 'vord' as that written by the block. Colour-form-historical documentation etc. I stand by the analysis and conclusion on that one. Others of course may be able to provide an alternative analysis, historical documentation and so forth. But no-one has yet, I think.