Aries Design: Truly Aries, or actually based on Capricorn?

[Linda]

If the vms is Alpine in origin, it might be more likely to depict a goat or ibex because it would be more familiar an animal? Especially if sheep could not traverse the terrain. 

It might depend on the art they had seen, even if they were not Alpine homesteaders, maybe grandma and grandpa were, and they had a lot of books that they passed down to our artist(s)?

or, as Stolfi says, city dwellers who didn't know the difference. Various other sectors of society who may never have been to sea, nor seen a fish, so to speak. Those that actually were at sea a lot also would not often see such things.

Someone mentioned a charm, I still have one somewhere, although I haven't seen the box it is in for some time. I am almost certain it is a goat with Aries written below. I don't know where it came from though, it could be European.

Wow I just did a search and I would say 2/3 were ibexes this time.
A sampling of what came up under "Aries charm" images:

Has the curly horns but the tail is Capra, looks like Capra ibex.

A little abstract, but I would say goat (milk?)

Another Ibex

Another ibex

A goat? Female ibex?


Maybe I have not seen enough sheep either but none of these look like sheep to me. Nor Mouflon, I just saw more posts I hadn't read). But maybe I am wrong that it continues to be confusing even today?