30-09-2026, 12:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 30-09-2026, 12:20 PM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(29-09-2026, 09:03 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If you imagine all the nymphs lined up in a single line (or circle, if you want a cycle), then it makes sense to read from the inner circles to the outer ones. ... No idea where the rings should start. Clockwise reading seems suggested by preferential walking direction.
When trying to figure this out, we should keep in mind that the Scribe did not necessarily draw the nymphs in the order in which they should be read (which he probably did not know either). And he need not have been consistent over all diagrams.
Based on the "artistic quality", I believe that the first nymph that he drew, in the whole VMS, was the inner one on Aries 1 (f70v1) at 12:00. I posted elsewhere my theory for what the nymph originally looked like, and how he invented the tubs just to hide his sorry failure.
Otherwise I would guess that he usually drew the nymphs in clockwise order starting form ~12:00. However the text rings seem to read clockwise from ~10:30.
Quote:BUT in the top (third ring) row of Sagittarius, something like one or two horizontal tubes can be observed.
I see those "barrels" as contributions by one of the retracers, who mistook the bottom outline of the thigh of a nymph for the top outline of a faded barrel, and proceeded to "restore" it as such.
All the best, --stolfi