Page f73r

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Identification

  Title: "Scorpio"
  Page: f73r = LA (Rene) = p143 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f73
  Panels: f73r
  Bifolio: bL1 = f73+f74
  Quire: L (Rene) = XII (Beinecke)

Attributes

  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

  [To be checked and completed]

  Six faint, mostly concentric, mechanically drawn circles delimit
  three rings of text. There seem to be no distinguished break
  in the text.  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 (that curves up, forward, down, then up
  again). 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 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.
  Most of them are female (with breasts and shoulder-long hair).

  Each nymph is holding or pointing to a star.

  There is a label just clockwise of each nymph.

Comments

References

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