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[Mark Knowles]

Marco is right about the resolution, we can already see clearer and larger than with the naked eye. Higher resolutions will only lead to weirder theories about stencils.

That I is similar indeed, and in that case it would be acceptable to read the last bit as "IS" like you say. The first part remains strange, with what looks like a disconnected descender or some diacritic.

I appreciate that the resolution is higher than the naked eye, but that does not mean that more cannot be observed with a still higher resolution. It reminds me of the tiny writing on the antikythera mechanism; there having even higher resolution on the images helped. In fact I think a higher resolution scan would be vital, given the claims of what is there or not, in determining what is there.