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The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Anonymous and companion authors · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The closing verse describes and interprets a female figure with attributes including helmet, wings and cock. The supplied note says that the corresponding image is not present at that point in its governing copy. That is an editorial report about the witness, not permission to reconstruct a recovered historical picture.
The words of the poem still supply evidence for the figure’s described features and their interpretation. This lexicon therefore explains the verbal emblem and does not add an invented illustration. Its separately verified inverted-triangle figure belongs to another passage and must not be used as evidence that the missing emblem has been inspected.
Supplied apparatus
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Historical contexts
Closing epigrams · unit 2