Aries Design: Truly Aries, or actually based on Capricorn?

[eggyk]

Maybe you encounter normal goat more often because your "dataset" is skewed, having disproportional number of German manuscripts?

Yes, that's entirely possible.

Currently, its roughly 45% mammal, 55% seagoat in entries containing the string "France" in its location. Doing the same with Germany entries gets around an 80%-10%-10% split between mammal, seagoat and uncertain. 

(entries meaning a specific depiction within a manuscript, so this is counting manuscripts more than once.)

So that tentatively supports what you're saying about german artists