I work long hours, Don. The only way I can work on the VMS is by giving up sleep.
For gallows characters some of the Greek acrophonic numbers have half-benches. I haven't posted examples of the half-benches because I simply haven't time. You can see some of the full benches here:
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And a couple more examples here (scroll down to the coin near the bottom and the stacked characters at the bottom.):
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In Greek, and sometimes in Latin, stacking characters or numbers was not uncommon. In Latin, benching is also used to indicate a long macron (abbreviation symbol). When it passes through characters with ascenders, it looks like a VMS bench.
Also, when abbreviations for "per" and "pro" are raised up above the baseline (doesn't happen often but does happen occasionally), they look like P gallows.
I think it's more important to understand the dynamics of abbreviation symbols and the many ways they can be put together at the discretion of the scribe than to find an exact match in some manuscript. Most of the glyphs DO match abbreviation symbols, so it's very clear that these conventions were known to the VMS scribes, and quite a few scribes did combine them in idiosyncratic ways unique to that person.
For gallows characters some of the Greek acrophonic numbers have half-benches. I haven't posted examples of the half-benches because I simply haven't time. You can see some of the full benches here:
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And a couple more examples here (scroll down to the coin near the bottom and the stacked characters at the bottom.):
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In Greek, and sometimes in Latin, stacking characters or numbers was not uncommon. In Latin, benching is also used to indicate a long macron (abbreviation symbol). When it passes through characters with ascenders, it looks like a VMS bench.
Also, when abbreviations for "per" and "pro" are raised up above the baseline (doesn't happen often but does happen occasionally), they look like P gallows.
I think it's more important to understand the dynamics of abbreviation symbols and the many ways they can be put together at the discretion of the scribe than to find an exact match in some manuscript. Most of the glyphs DO match abbreviation symbols, so it's very clear that these conventions were known to the VMS scribes, and quite a few scribes did combine them in idiosyncratic ways unique to that person.