Discussion of the Konstellations

[Koen G]

So, I don't know if anyone cares or is still following this, but this is what happened.

With my initial ID for Virgo, I recognized Aphrodite cues, and from Aphrodite I went to Virgo. Makes sense, in a way. But apparently I was supposed to go from Aphrodite to Cygnus. I'll have to look into this some more, and also the extent to which Aphrodite was identified with Leda and so on.

Anyway, what got me doubting was the following. I found all constellations around the nymph in the image below, and, again leaving out the details for now, everything pointed towards her being Virgo instead of the one on the other folio.

So long story made short, I knew that this nymph was supposed to represent Virgo, I just didn't see how.
In the mythological narrative she represents Philomela bound and about to have her tongue ripped out with the tweezers she's holding. So the object itself is correct, but the fact that she is holding it instead of her assailant is strange. This means that the overall composition is dictated by the constellation layer. I first thought she referred to Cancer because of the "claw", but that simply makes no sense in the overall composition. She has to be Virgo.



So the question is: how does this nymph bring to mind the image of Virgo?