f84r "Covered Pool"

[Koen G]

VViews

Well spotted, it does appear as if the water does some strange things.

I believe this is one of the remainders of the Egyptian sources of the MS. One of the ways they drew flowing liquid was with one, two or three parallel wiggly lines. 



(The rare facing figure above might remind viewers of a certain similarly rare facing figure in the VM, though this may be coincidental).

Now Egyptian water didn't play by the rules of physics, and would often make strange 90° angles. I have some good examples but can't find the at the moment, so this is just after some quick googling:



The scene above, on the left, is supposed to represent the cleansing of the body, yet the water kind of jumps out of the vessel, flows though the air above the deceased, makes an angle and lands behind Anubis.

This guy can make one flow of water split and land behind two different mummies at once:


And this one can make it split itself towards two containers without even looking:


The bottom line is, they drew a flow of water the way they needed it to go, and the interaction of one flow with another (and with gravity) was not realistic.

And wiggly lines, always wiggly lines.