04-03-2020, 11:56 PM
All three can be true at the same time - i.e. that the layout was largely preserved (as Rene suggests, as per my argument that we can see copies of layout gaps that were presumably in the preceding document), that the text is abbreviated (e.g. if the text had previously been expanded via an intermediate verbose cipher stage), and also that the scribe was copying blindly (e.g. that the text was transformed in place on a wax tablet, and copied from there onto the page).
These are not entirely new observations. ;-)
These are not entirely new observations. ;-)

