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Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens
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RE: Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens
Stefan Wirtz_2 > Yesterday, 02:57 PM
... 5 is not 6 is not 7 ...
Still there is no valid explanation how this
![[Image: ac3f4cecd8b4a00ab322804dcd1df506.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/ac/3f/4c/ac3f4cecd8b4a00ab322804dcd1df506.jpg)
could be this:
![[Image: 0260771ef543f0e858f72c33834b1848.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/02/60/77/0260771ef543f0e858f72c33834b1848.jpg)
So the towers (of Jerusalem) remain a dream, nothing more.
Meanwhile, a single Byzantine script shows much more things to have a look at:
![[Image: 98caf2722b663786e3a266ec02c03e1e.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/98/ca/f2/98caf2722b663786e3a266ec02c03e1e.jpg)
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RE: Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens
Jorge_Stolfi > Yesterday, 03:41 PM
(Yesterday, 02:57 PM)Stefan Wirtz_2 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.... 5 is not 6 is not 7 ...
Still there is no valid explanation how this
[six things at center of f85v2]
could be this:
[drawings of towers of Jerusalem]
So the towers (of Jerusalem) remain a dream, nothing more.
Meanwhile, a single Byzantine script shows much more things to have a look at:
[Drawings of Byzantine guys enjoying gelato cones]
I don't know what this post is replying to.
Anyway, please folks, those six things in the central rosette are definitely towers. Not cookie jars, beer steins, Mayan chocolate jugs, Pringles cans...
Sometimes some things resemble other things, but that does not mean that they are those other things.
The Pharma containers have varied shapes, some of which resemble these towers. But the six towers all resemble each other, and resemble a common type of Russian tower -- including the lobed design, the spire shaped as an inverted trumpet, with sharp tip and a sphere skewered halfway through it:
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Sure, those Rosette domes are a bit to wide (by a factor of 2) in proportion to the towers, compared to Russian onion-dome towers. But the heads of the nymphs (and of the Zodiac personified symbols) are a bit too big in proportion to their bodies, too.
Sure, the rightmost tower is rather thin. But there is an explanation: when the Scribe got to that tower, he found that he had not enough space left for a full width one.
However, there is no good reason tho think that they should be the towers of Jerusalem. Or of the New Jerusalem of Revelation. Sure, one is supposed to be the Center of the World, the other the center of the Heavens; and they both have towers. But there does not seem to be much else in the big fold-out that would connect to those Jewish/Christian themes.
And, don't worry -- the Scribe need not have been Russian, or be working in Russia, or having ever seen a Russian onion tower in person. Just as he probably never saw a volcano. Or a bear-like scorpion. Or a naked woman. He probably copied those (badly, as usual) from a book. Like much everything else.
All the best, --stolfi