(31-07-2026, 09:19 AM)Aga Tentakulus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I realise that.
I’m thinking about how the animals were drawn.
You have to understand that people in the city also kept sheep and pigs. To look after the animals, there were swineherds and shepherds. These weren’t necessarily their own animals.
So people in the city would also have needed to know how to draw goats and sheep.
In certain cases, say if there is a crest containing a depiction of the animal that may be relevant to the VMS aries (position, species, setting) then it's worth mentioning I suppose. But to start collecting and rating seals/ coats of arms (other than unbelievably interesting/relevant examples) isn't feasible.
In the context of mountain goat vs sheep, though, if you find examples of sheeps or rams being drawn as mountain goats, that's worth discussing as it gets to the heart of how people depicted the two, their overlapping features, where and when that happened etc. But then we need to be certain which animal was trying to be depicted, and why.