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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1614809, member: 2844"]Not dragons per sé, but the thing abounds with mythical creatures in a symmetrical arrangement.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>There are gryphonesque and lionesque heads attached to some of the scrolling. So their 'scrolled' bodies can easily be mistaken for foliate scrolling.</p><p>And Giotto is right, the squiggles that look like possible numbers are on the nose of one of the creatures, and exactly the same ones in mirror image are on the nose of the corresponding creature on the other side.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1614809, member: 2844"]Not dragons per sé, but the thing abounds with mythical creatures in a symmetrical arrangement.:) There are gryphonesque and lionesque heads attached to some of the scrolling. So their 'scrolled' bodies can easily be mistaken for foliate scrolling. And Giotto is right, the squiggles that look like possible numbers are on the nose of one of the creatures, and exactly the same ones in mirror image are on the nose of the corresponding creature on the other side.[/QUOTE]
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