#
# Identification:
#
# * 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).
#
# 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:
#
# Six faint, mostly concentric, mechanically drawn circles delimit
# three rings of text (units µ{R1}, µ{R2}, µ{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 µ{S0}, µ{S1},
# µ{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.
#
# References:
#
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# Last edited on 1999-04-21 06:58:33 by stolfi