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Page: f73r Title: "Scorpio"

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.

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:air).

Each nymph is:olding or pointing to a star.

There is a label just clockwise of each nymph.

Comments:


Paragraph: S0
Labels on stars, Scorpio, outside the diagram
Last edited on DATE TIME by USER

Numbers by John Grove
Transcribed left to right

1: otoly

2: chockhy

3: okedy

4: yteeody

Paragraph: R1
outer text ring
Last edited on 1998-12-10 01:04:00 by stolfi

No obviosu starting place
Transcribed clockwise from discontinuity in bounding circles at 10:45

1: ypolcheey salchedal chepchey daraly oteos air ar oteosdal chotchy soteees alshey ches al chees cheoly leiir* choteey cheteey cheteeeos!aiin chetchody chedar ar cheteey oteor ar air alor shetch ytchy cheody ykeydom oteos alar alcheky

Paragraph: S1
Labels on stars, Scorpio, outer ring
Last edited on 1998-12-10 01:05:52 by stolfi

No obviosu starting place.
Transcribed clockwise from 10:30
Numbers by John Grove

1: otey

2: otaly

3: okeody

4: oteedyl

5: okesdy

6: okery

7: oksedy

8: ykeeory

9: oteeosy

10: shekal

11: oteedyg!

12: okedal

13: chdy

14: dalshey

15: opaiin

16: okeos

Paragraph: R2
middle ring of text
Last edited on 1998-12-10 01:04:48 by stolfi

Transcribed clockwise from wider gap at 10:30

1: oteey dar al opaiin olalaiin sair ar chopchedy chdar orom otor!eees olteey okees otar chey oteas oho!r op!ar chey daiin qoiheey s!cheey dal cheesy

Paragraph: S2
Labels on stars, Scorpio, inner band
Last edited on 1998-12-10 01:06:21 by stolfi

No obvious starting place, but nymphs seem to get
progressively more crowded as we get closer to 10:30
Transcribed clockwise from wider gap at 10:30

1: okeos

2: okary

star with tail
3: ot*!ad!

4: oota!dy

5: oky

6: chefy

7: otal

star with tail
8: shek

star with tail
9: ar

10: kar

Paragraph: R3
inner ring of text
Last edited on 1998-12-10 01:05:15 by stolfi

Transcribed clockwise from wide gap at 09:00

1: osaiin chedain oteey chedaly okechs chepchees aly oteodal {gap}