21-01-2026, 08:03 PM
(21-01-2026, 06:57 PM)Rafal wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....Whoa! What is the source for the top left image, with the Naiad(?) and the fish?
Quote:They are some cases of nymphs in laying barrels/tubes.
That is the Pisces diagram, f70v3/f70v2. It is a big(ger) puzzle for me because I cannot quite place it in the evolution of the Scribe's "artistic" skills.
The style of the nymphs and tubs in the outer circle would place Pisces somewhere between f70v1 (Aries 1, which I think was the first one drawn) and f72r1 (Taurus 2, when he gave up on tubs).
I think that the barrels are the result of poor planning (something that the Scribe obviously excelled at). The circles framing the three text rings, by themselves, would have left enough space in the inner figure band for nymphs in upright tubs, just like those in the outer band. But for some reason he added an extra ring with decorative patterns just outside the inner text ring. And then he drew an extra circle just inside the middle text ring. You can see it more clearly at 08:30, just above (outwards) of the label okaldal . Maybe he intended to put another band of decorative patterns there. Anyway, the space between those two circles was then insufficient for nymphs in upright tubs. Hence, I think, the horizontal barrels.
It is possible that he first tried to draw just the nymphs, from the belly up, without tubs or barrels, starting at 12:00; but after one or two more he went back and added the barrels. But there is quite a bit of inconsistency there. The nymph at 06:00 is standing outside the barrel, but the next ones are again half-in. There seems to have been another planing error between 09:00 and 12:00 that forced him to draw the barrel at 10:30 half-hidden behind the barrel at 11:00 -- which is the only one with the mouth and nymph facing clockwise. To complicate matters, those nymphs were heavily BEEP sorry.
All the best, --stolfi