-JKP- > 19-02-2019, 03:59 AM
(18-02-2019, 11:47 PM)Morten St. George Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JP, We seem to agree that whatever it is, a 5 or a g, it has a macron (bar) which is really all I care about.
Morten St. George > 19-02-2019, 05:50 AM
(19-02-2019, 03:59 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(18-02-2019, 11:47 PM)Morten St. George Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JP, We seem to agree that whatever it is, a 5 or a g, it has a macron (bar) which is really all I care about.
No, if it is a "g" (which is the most likely interpretation), then there is no macron. The crossbar is simply part of the letter.
A macron is an abbreviation symbol. If it is a "y" than it is "y" with a macron (abbreviation). If it is "g", there is no macron.
-JKP- > 19-02-2019, 09:37 AM
Morten St. George > 19-02-2019, 01:16 PM
(19-02-2019, 03:59 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.A macron is an abbreviation symbol.
(19-02-2019, 09:37 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If you keep calling it a 5 because you want it to be a 5 (to support your theories), it's not going to get you to the truth.
Morten St. George > 21-02-2019, 05:33 AM
(05-12-2018, 10:58 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It's not a teepee and we don't know what it is. If we did, it wouldn't quite be the "world's most mysterious manuscript".
-JKP- > 21-02-2019, 08:03 AM
Morten St. George > 21-02-2019, 02:00 PM
(21-02-2019, 08:03 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Morten, the reason I don't like your teepee idea has nothing to do with Europe or Italy or any of the things you've mentioned.
As I said, I grew up with teepees. They don't look like that. The way the VMS illustrator drew things was not perfect, but it was better than that.
Paris > 21-02-2019, 03:54 PM
(21-02-2019, 02:00 PM)Morten St. George Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
In all cases, I see a sharply slanted opening on the top, I see crisscrossed twigs shooting upwards, and I see irregular bulges on the sides. What, specifically, JP, makes you think the VMS tepee is not a tepee?
-JKP- > 21-02-2019, 07:13 PM
Morten St. George > 21-02-2019, 08:33 PM
(21-02-2019, 07:13 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I don't know what it's intended to be, but the top of the VMS texture is not made of poles like a teepee. It is much more similar to medieval drawings of winds or waters that are whooshing out of mouths or other kinds of openings.
The texture doesn't look like skins, either. Teepee skins are not scaly, nor are they layered in concentric rings.
And I've never seen a teepee with regularly spaced holes or circles, like a deliberate pattern.