Rosettes and Revelations Pt.1: The Holy City - Koen Gheuens and Cary Rapaport

[Mark Knowles]

While some rosettes do have illustrations that can be interpreted as geographical representations, other rosettes seem to be lacking. Their patterns are quite abstract. What's important here is the text, the twice-marked band in the central rosette.

Well, in my interpretation of the page the illustrations aren't quite so abstract. However, as I have discussed before there are certainly map-like features to the page and certain non-map-like features to the page. So the question remains if the page is a map, but with non-map-like features or is the page a non-map with map-like features or is it some kind of hybrid. Features like the distinct distributed buildings on the page, non-map theorists tend to ignore as though they are unimportant.