We will finish this excursion with a table for comparisons:
In A, I have suggested, we can here see the months of spring. Presumably the quartet beginning with Sun normally was presented with ordinal numbers 19--22, because midsummer should be connected with 22. But the creator of A wished to have the months in overview at the beginning of side a. The quartet in K, we have found, could represent the end of the year, with Mercury hiding the Sun behind his back. Only the rays are visible, presumably 3 for spring and 4 for atumn. This technique we discovered at maro:
In Q the quartet apparently instead is located at midsummer, with Mercury hiding 'eyes' behind his back, this time though he is seen in profile. And the 'eyes' should represent the Moon. |