19-10-2016, 05:26 PM
Anton, Davidsch,
What you call 'ornaments' fall into particular classes, as I explained when doing the analysis. The 'ornament' for the East roundel is determined by the fact that it does represent East, and since it was not designed for the Latin world, it represents that quarter by the conventions legible to people of that region. This is one of the most interesting aspects of the map - that each of the quarters is represented using conventions of that part of the maker's world. This is why the west roundel and its content is so easily read in the conventions which were used within the Mediterranean, and to which we are heirs. So it 'makes sense' to us. More or less. The 'X' on the main building won't mean to most readers what it meant to the original designer.
Back to the section... the striated part describes the sort of terrain. I've identified some of the patterns, such as those meaning sand or gibber desert (see the section between south and west), and sand-with-water (included in a detail in the northern roundel which is an image of the Mediterranean).. and so on.
The words inscribed on that broad high road, I'd predict are either place-names or things like sites where people had to pay taxes en route, or who controlled each section of a given route.
I think the origin of this map lies in the activities of the Hellenistic geographers and that is an example of what Piri Rei's called a jafariye made in the days of Alexander. Modern western scholars constantly assume he meant something gained from Ptolemy but I think Reis knew what he was talking about. There's no doubt such works existed.
But the thing about the patterns is that some are conventional, some are really technical like the ones representing terrain-types, and some might be called no more than ornament. Function is the key.
Best of luck to you both
What you call 'ornaments' fall into particular classes, as I explained when doing the analysis. The 'ornament' for the East roundel is determined by the fact that it does represent East, and since it was not designed for the Latin world, it represents that quarter by the conventions legible to people of that region. This is one of the most interesting aspects of the map - that each of the quarters is represented using conventions of that part of the maker's world. This is why the west roundel and its content is so easily read in the conventions which were used within the Mediterranean, and to which we are heirs. So it 'makes sense' to us. More or less. The 'X' on the main building won't mean to most readers what it meant to the original designer.
Back to the section... the striated part describes the sort of terrain. I've identified some of the patterns, such as those meaning sand or gibber desert (see the section between south and west), and sand-with-water (included in a detail in the northern roundel which is an image of the Mediterranean).. and so on.
The words inscribed on that broad high road, I'd predict are either place-names or things like sites where people had to pay taxes en route, or who controlled each section of a given route.
I think the origin of this map lies in the activities of the Hellenistic geographers and that is an example of what Piri Rei's called a jafariye made in the days of Alexander. Modern western scholars constantly assume he meant something gained from Ptolemy but I think Reis knew what he was talking about. There's no doubt such works existed.
But the thing about the patterns is that some are conventional, some are really technical like the ones representing terrain-types, and some might be called no more than ornament. Function is the key.
Best of luck to you both
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