(18-11-2016, 06:34 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.VViews - thanks. Those priests apparently carried around two cymbals, which looked like small circles. However, I haven't seen much relevant evidence from Rome itself. Things become more interesting when we enter formerly Hellenistic territories
Back to the two circles - when I saw the thumbnail of this one, it looked intriguing, though apparently it's just wheels on a chariot in side view.
I found this image very illuminating on something else entirely though, offering a possible solution for a prominent feature of the VM... any idea?
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Koen, great example.
The look and feel of it, the arches, the bucket, the patterns, the "spray" of the torch, the sceptre, the headgear...
The dots/stripes motif and the "arches under the seat" show up You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. too. No chains on the arms of Cassiopeia. The arches under the seat are interesting, but I discovered that they are not uncommon. Scribes are sometimes drawn this way because their chairs were sometimes made with arches in the woodwork, but the one you linked, the one in the chariot is intriguing because I almost sense a double meaning, that the arches are part of the chariot bucket motif but also evocative of the coliseums in which some of the chariot races took place.
Also, I've been semi-assuming that the "bucket" motif in the VMS was based on loges or the bastille extensions one sees in old castles and castle walls, as both of these were the inspiration for many of the "buckets" one sees in medieval diagrams. It never occurred to me that the VMS buckets might be inspired by chariot buckets, probably because chariot buckets don't usually look this much like tubs, they are often open in the back and frequently the upper rim curves down toward the base to create an entirely different shape. I'll have to add chariot buckets (or, at least... drawings of chariot buckets), to the list of possible inspirations.
I just paged forward to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., to see how the illustrator drew chains, but it doesn't have them. It appears to be a braided rope.