f82r - label x + St Catherine

[Jorge_Stolfi]

The rest is just how paint as settled into the vellum plus how the scans picked stuff up. I've been burned too many times to fall for patterns in the paint again  .

As I wrote, yes, that may well be the case.  But Is there a way to check that? 

The curl at (J) in particular seems hard to explain as green paint effect.

Too bad that we don't have XRF or multispectral images of this page (or of f82v).

Anyway, here is it again, but red channel now.  The detail (A) is certain, the end of the waterfall. To me the (J) looks like splashing water at the bottom of the waterfall, and (K) is a whirlpool or something.  I find it difficult to parse them as green paint scratches.  The others, I admit, are quite dubious.  (L) would be two sides of a nearly vertical pipe. (N) and (P) are tips of the horns of two objects that look like crowns with three blunt horns. (Q) looks like "something".  (T) looks like the fringe of a canopy, like the one at the NW corner of f79v.  ® and (S) could be labels...

   

And here is a more radical hallucination: the wavy edge of the pool is not original; it was added by the Retracer who also "enhanced" the nymphs.  There was no big pool. Instead, each of the full-size nymphs was in a small round tub by herself.  The whole green area had several channels, pipes,  whatnot.

But I don't know what to make of the small nymphs, though.  maybe they were in small tubs that got erased.  Maybe they were not there at all.

Al the best, --jorge