09-01-2026, 11:43 AM
(09-01-2026, 08:21 AM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[We believe they are containers] because the manuscript has images of both towers and containers, and these You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., not like the towers.
Only some of the containers in pharma look like the six objects around the center of the Rosettes map. But all six of those objects definitely look like towers -- in shape, size, and placement.
The resemblance with the containers is just a coincidence. Like the armadillo and the sunflower....
Those six towers don't look like the other towers in that same map, but so what? The other towers don't look like each other either. There are round ones and square ones, with roofs like cones, like pyramids, or flat, with no spikes, one spike, two spikes...
By the 1400s there must have been hundreds of towers with bulging onion roofs in Russia, Ukraine, Persia, India, Pakistan and surrounding places. They were occasionally depicted on European maps and manuscripts. On that Catalan map they are used as icons to mean something like "Asian or Muslim".
For some reason the Author or the Scribe decided that the six huge sacred towers at the center of his imaginary world had onion roofs, like those depicted in those maps. Perhaps because of the exotic looks...
All the best, --stolfi