25-11-2020, 05:40 PM
Vladimir asked himself one of the most surprising questions I have read on the forum:
Can a blot (dot) be considered an independent glyph?
He put the example of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. folio, where there are 206 characters based on the c form. In 6 cases, the left leg of the bench is a blot, compared with the other 206 characters, where there is not a single blot. But the pen and hand remain unchanged.
This phenomenon occurs in other pages and almost always in benches. The most logical thing is to think that they are ink spills...but always in the same place?
Since I think that benches are icons of a position of the Moon close to the Sun, I think that some of the scribes wanted to play with the idea of the lunar eclipse and the darkening of the Moon
Can a blot (dot) be considered an independent glyph?
He put the example of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. folio, where there are 206 characters based on the c form. In 6 cases, the left leg of the bench is a blot, compared with the other 206 characters, where there is not a single blot. But the pen and hand remain unchanged.
This phenomenon occurs in other pages and almost always in benches. The most logical thing is to think that they are ink spills...but always in the same place?
Since I think that benches are icons of a position of the Moon close to the Sun, I think that some of the scribes wanted to play with the idea of the lunar eclipse and the darkening of the Moon

