On the Author of Revelations and the Throne of St. Mark

Did the author of the Revelations see this throne or one just like it?  Let's just go with that idea for the moment and imagine what he saw when he looked at the hexagon on the front.  One might argue that he didn’t see the world that was created in six days and is imbued with the quality of six. He saw a two-dimensional drawing of a cube, each line being the edge of one of the six faces. Is that a correct or incorrect interpretation of the image?

The Animal on the Back of the Throne of St Mark in Venice

It isn’t a lamb. It’s a ram. It has definite curved horns. The reason we have missed them is that the pictures of the front aren’t very good, and the horns curve down and run along the top of the head, just as they would have to if the ram were to get caught in brambles. (The Hebrew has sevach [Samech-Bet-Kaf], anything tangled like a big wild climbing rose or a big blackberry. The word is related to sevacha lattice and mesubbach complicated. This is different to sene [Samech-Nun-He], as in the Burning Bush.

That doesn’t mean the author of Revelations has mistaken what he saw. He has followed the lead of John’s Gospel in fusing the ram of Genesis with the purely secondary identification (in my opinion) of the Passover lamb. Mind you, the fusion probably does go back to the actual date of 37 A.D. It need not be an invention of the period of falsification