# Comments:
#
#   The dark stripes in some sectors may have been the result of the
#   hypothetical "Dark Painter" mistaking the spaces between the
#   radial lines by solid cylinders, and tried to shade them
#   accordingly. Unfortunately that "obvious" interpretation is
#   excluded when one looks closely at how the radial lines connect to
#   the "cups".  Of course the "shadows" have made the error easier to
#   make.
#
#   There is no obvious place to start reading the letters between 
#   the star arms; but if one starts at 11:00 (the smallest sector)
#   the letters spell out "dolsedy"; which may be an unexpected
#   splitting of "dolshdy", a rather common word.
#
#   The radial lines and the outer text probably start at the
#   decorated band at 02:00. On the other hand, the decorated band may
#   be just a filler addded to patch up a mistake (the attempt to fit
#   an alternating pattern into an odd number of sectors).
#
