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# Identification:
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#   * Title: "Scorpio"
#   * Page: f73r = LA (Rene) = p143 (Stolfi)
#   * Folio: f73
#   * Panels: f73r
#   * Bifolio: bL1 = f73+f74
#   * Quire: L (Rene) = XII (Beinecke)
#
#   D'Imperio figure 10, page 88 (center).
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# Attributes:
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#   * Language: ? (Currier)
#   * Hand: ? (Currier)
#   * Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi)
#   * Subject: zodiac
#   * Colors: green(center),yellow(stars),red(lips,some_mouths) (Reeds), blue+green(animal) (Rene)
#
# Description:
#
#   Six faint, mostly concentric, mechanically drawn circles delimit
#   three rings of text (units 程R1}, 程R2}, 程R3}, outside-in). The
#   inner ring has a conspicuous break at 09:00; no such break is
#   visible in the other two rings. Rene [07 Apt 1999] says that the
#   text seems to have been written with two different pens: the inner
#   and middle rings, from 11:30 to 03:00, with a 'normal' pen, and
#   the rest with a sharp one.
#
#   Inside the inner circle is a squat animal. A dark smudge
#   obliterates most of the animal's body, leaving visible only the
#   head (roundish, with a wide mouth and two very short and broad
#   horns) and the tail (a loop with both ends close together,
#   lost in the smudge; the rear end may have a bulb). 
#   Above the animal is a seven-pointed star, with a tail that
#   ends in the animal's mouth. 
#
#   Below the animal is an illegible word.
#
#   Between the rings of text, there are two bands of naked female
#   figures ("nymphs"), 10 in the inner one and 16 in the outer one.
#   Four additional nymphs are standing on top of the outer ring of
#   text. 
#
#   The nymph at 09:15 in the inner band looks more cramped than
#   the rest, as if added as an afterthought. Her head
#   is visible on f72r1 through the "cigarette hole", and 
#   has been incorporated to that page's diagram. 
#   
#   All of the nymphs are in 3/4 view, facing clockwise. All have
#   full breasts. Most have light hair, shoulder-long or longer,
#   and wear no hats.
#
#   Each nymph is pointing with her left hand to a star, or holding it
#   by one of the rays, slightly above her head. The stars are
#   proportionately about a foot in diameter, with triangular rays.
#   They are painted with various colors, and some seem to have a fine
#   vein running down the middle of each ray. The star in the inner
#   band at 05:00 is a lot smaller than the rest.
#
#   Some of the stars have a curving wire-like "tail", usually
#   attached to the tip of one ray. In most of these cases the nymph
#   is *not* holding the star by the tail. The outer star at 01:15 may
#   have a second "beaded" tail, very faint (a vellum defect?).
#
#   The nymph's right hand is usually on herwr back, buttock, hip,
#   waist, thigh, or belly. Other times the right arms is stretched
#   back and down. The feet are generally hidden behind the text ring,
#   but sometimes visible.
#
#   Some of the nymphs with straight right arm seem to be holding
#   something with it. The two outer-band nymphs at 04:30 and 05:30
#   seem to be holding short sticks. The outer-band nymph at 07:45
#   seems to be holding a moon-shaped object, with some sort of handle
#   attached between the horns. The following nymph at 08:30 seems to
#   be holding a light fuzzy ball, badly faded.
#
#   There is a label just clockwise of each nymph (units 程S0}, 程S1},
#   程S2}, outside-in).
#
#   The following table summarizes the nymph attributes. The "rays"
#   column is the number of rays in each star; a "t" means that the
#   star has a tail. The "hand" column gives the position of the right
#   hand; a hour figure measn that the right arm is held more or less
#   straight, in that direction relative to the nymph.
#
#     band  label place hand  rays notes
#     ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ----------------------
#     inner S2.1  10:00 hip    7     
#     inner S2.2  11:30 07:00  7     
#     inner S2.3  00:30 hip    8 t 
#     inner S2.4  01:30 belly  7   
#     inner S2.5  03:30 hip    7   
#     inner S2.6  05:00 belly  6   tiny star
#     inner S2.7  06:30 back   8   
#     inner S2.8  07:30 butt   7 t 
#     inner S2.9  08:30 belly  7   
#     inner S2.10 09:30 07:30  7   
#                                 
#     outer S1.1  10:15 back   7   
#     outer S1.2  10:45 hip    8                  
#     outer S1.3  11:15 hip    7   smaller, feet visible
#     outer S1.4  00:00 hip    7 t 
#     outer S1.5  00:45 back   7                  
#     outer S1.6  01:15 hip    7 t 
#     outer S1.7  02:15 butt   8   
#     outer S1.8  03:00 belly  8   
#     outer S1.9  03:45 hip    7   
#     outer S1.10 04:30 08:30  7   
#     outer S1.11 05:30 08:30  7   
#     outer S1.12 06:15 07:00  7   
#     outer S1.13 07:15 back   7   
#     outer S1.14 07:45 07:00  7   moon?
#     outer S1.15 08:45 08:30  8   
#     outer S1.16 09:30 back   8   
#                                 
#     top   S0.1  11:00 hip    8   
#     top   S0.2  11:30 07:00  8   
#     top   S0.3  00:00 hip    8   
#     top   S0.4  00:30 07:30  8   
#
# Comments:
#
#   The beast could be a somewhat incorrect picture of a scorpion, the
#   traditional symbol for the Scorpio sign (??? to ???). The apparent
#   swelling at one end of the tail could be the venom sac and
#   stinger.
#
#   The break at 09:00 in the inner ring of text suggests that reading
#   should start there.
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# References:
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# Last edited on 1999-04-21 06:58:33 by stolfi