Decomposition of the "gallows" characters

[Anton]

you can see the same process, unfinished, on the gallows in the middle of the third line—the scribe started to add a second stroke and stopped partway down and the subsequent gallows does not have the second stroke, as though he maybe decided it wasn't such a good idea to keep doing it.

Do you mean oochoikhy? The "process" is actually "finished", just the ink mostly ran out.

Look at the EVA-r glyphs at the bottom of the same page (6v) and the "or" on the last line...

Not only are they darker, as though they may all have been added at the same time after the main text, but look at the weird spacing. They do not follow "comfortably" from the previous characters in terms of word-letter spacing as if they were written in sequence and they are clearly not re-inked.

Besides spacing, there are (here and in consistently through the VMS in general) interesting things happening with the baseline. E.g. f6v, second line from the end, choldar. The r is darker, but the spacing is OK. But r is lower than the baseline of cholda. Or, in the last line, ychcor. Looks like chco were written in a different pass than y and r.