OH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That first letter in luc'm really is strange. Not quite "l" (there's an extra and quite distinct jog in the stem), not quite "b" (the top of the loop is missing).
When I was staring at it just now, it suddenly occurred to me it also looks a bit like the Rx (radix) abbreviation. There's a faint angular line across the jog in the stem... I think.
This abbreviation was used to indicate recipes/prescriptions (just as it is today), and also to refer to roots (the root was often the part that was used medicinally).
Which means, another possibility is that it might be Rx uc'm, thus something like
mallier aller Rx uc'm hoc
paint all the roots ochre [of] this pi???/vi????
Ochre is just one idea for uc'm, it could be other things but interpreting the first letter as Rx opens up another cupboard of possibilities.
That first letter in luc'm really is strange. Not quite "l" (there's an extra and quite distinct jog in the stem), not quite "b" (the top of the loop is missing).
When I was staring at it just now, it suddenly occurred to me it also looks a bit like the Rx (radix) abbreviation. There's a faint angular line across the jog in the stem... I think.
This abbreviation was used to indicate recipes/prescriptions (just as it is today), and also to refer to roots (the root was often the part that was used medicinally).
Which means, another possibility is that it might be Rx uc'm, thus something like
mallier aller Rx uc'm hoc
paint all the roots ochre [of] this pi???/vi????
Ochre is just one idea for uc'm, it could be other things but interpreting the first letter as Rx opens up another cupboard of possibilities.
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