Koen G > 14-10-2016, 06:37 PM
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Koen G > 14-10-2016, 07:44 PM
Quote:If you strip away the decorative ‘papellony’-style fish-scale detailing from f86v4, you end up with two circular diagrams side by side, one with a sun at the centre, the other with a moon at the centre. I honestly find it hard to believe that something so distinctive arrived here ex nihilo: this pair must surely have come from a prior document somewhere.
Anton > 14-10-2016, 10:04 PM
R. Sale > 15-10-2016, 07:09 PM
sidanno > 16-10-2016, 10:50 PM
(14-10-2016, 06:37 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm working on a short blog post about nymph attributes, and I realized I had never looked properly at these guys before. Image contrast etc. has been altered:
Now there are some weird things about them. For starters, I think the faces are drawn in a different style than those in the other nymphy sections. They are all clothed. They all have two items, which is highly exceptional. How I interpret the items, very tentatively:
Top left (my image): container, product (bread? vegetable?) or gold?
Top right: container, cereal crop
Bottom left: holding yellow globe in one hand, pointing to an object with writing (??) with the other.
Bottom right: yellow thing in one hand, not sure whether the top part belongs with it, in that case it looks like a vegetable. White globe in the other. One can argue that the white globe is part of the background, but the way the hand is held suggests to me that it is an item.
Interestingly, a white globe is also held by this figure mentioned recently by Davidsch:
In both cases, the globe is held up in the figure's right hand (proper).
So what are your thoughts about these nymphs? Has the "writing" been studied before? It almost looks like som kind of tablet...
-JKP- > 02-11-2016, 03:43 AM
-JKP- > 02-11-2016, 03:49 AM
(14-10-2016, 06:37 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm working on a short blog post about nymph attributes, and I realized I had never looked properly at these guys before. Image contrast etc. has been altered:
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Top left (my image): container, product (bread? vegetable?) or gold?
Top right: container, cereal crop
Bottom left: holding yellow globe in one hand, pointing to an object with writing (??) with the other.
Bottom right: yellow thing in one hand, not sure whether the top part belongs with it, in that case it looks like a vegetable. White globe in the other. One can argue that the white globe is part of the background, but the way the hand is held suggests to me that it is an item.
Koen G > 02-11-2016, 09:11 AM
-JKP- > 02-11-2016, 11:01 AM
(02-11-2016, 09:11 AM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JKP: not impossible, since at least two of the other figures are holding a man-made object in one hand. Though then again, food also seems to be a theme.
I wonder if we are supposed to be seeing the same figure in an implied sequence. For example I just noticed that if you line them up in order, they perform a full turn:
I just started at the "sowing" one and went counter clockwise. You can read the image from right to left to go clockwise, and basically start anywhere. It is not very clear which perspective is meant, but this is how I see it: facing left, facing back, facing right, facing front.