The top left hand loop of the gallows characters is a 4. Who disagrees?

[Emma May Smith]

I have an idea as to how this can be demostrated, but it would be worth knowing the extent of the disagreement to this before proceeding.

There are a number of cases where the first leg of [t] is written near the baseline of the text at the same level as [q], and others where [q] has a long ascender as though the scribe started writing [t]. In both cases they suggest that in the writer's mind the shapes of [t] and [q] were linked.

I made this point a while ago somewhere but can't find it now.