So this may be confirmation bias on my part with regard to my belief that the zodiac shows ages and not months, but I found it interesting that when i went to find examples of Sumerian fashion, i found the men wore short skirts and royalty and deities wore long ones. There was one female ruler in the Sumerian King list, although she and the fashion examples come from the Taurean age, it is known that the civilization was well established by the 4th millennium BC, having been established between the 5th and 6th, which falls into the age of Gemini. As this is touted to be the cradle of civilization, it is an interesting parallel that no further clothing appears in the subsequent zodiac depictions.
Also, the rubble that the nymph at 6 o'clock stands upon, as well as the sideways tubs indicates to me that the architecture is no longer standing in its original form, yet still exists. This is indeed also the case with Anu Ziggurat dating to the 4th century BC. Again this is the last of the rubble or tubs/barrels.
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While Castor and Pollux would come later, there were twin deities in Sumerian mythology, both sets were related to water, one set was male and female and were the parents of Anu, the God of the Heavens, so not only fit with being portrayed as nymphs, but are also related to the sky and stars, and could possibly have been the basis of the subsequent mythology, especially in their relationship with Troy, Greece, Socotra, the Black Sea, the Argonauts, Rome and the Etruscans, with other IndoEuropean parallels, it is like they travelled along with the migration of humans through time. Castor and Pollux as stars and patrons of sailors again establishes the water/sky duality also. So indeed i could see them as actually meaning to be portrayed as Castor and Pollux, and standing for this continuum of ancient human civilization.