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Maybe the inclined line is a coincidence. There are a number of Latin scripts that have inclined letters

   Have you seen many Latin scripts with three inclined lines in a row? Is it a coincidence that those three lines are seen in the imagery of the VM, especially on the clock of the Rosettes folio?

In scripts that use Latin characters, I only see a pattern of three inclined lines where the overall script inclines backwards, and then one does see them as Roman numerals in manuscripts of the very early 15th century and the 14th century and earlier.

I have located a style of writing that specifically inclines backwards. Several of the letters incline, especially m, n, r, and i. I thought at first it might be left-handers, but I located so many of them from the same time period, it appears that someone was teaching people to write this way (maybe the tutor was a left-hander).


But the backleaning i glyphs in the VMS are not necessarily letters. They could be numbers (numerous researchers have noted the similarity to Roman numerals) or they could be symbols, but you are going to have to find more evidence to establish that they are specifically astronomical symbols.