[split] Discussion of f116v interpretations by Anton Alipov

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Although interesting, "gaf" is less likely than "gas" - first because there's virtually no place for the stroke, second because there is a character much like "f" in Line 0 (in that extremely strange last word which seems to end with "fer"), and its shape differs from the hypothetic "f" in "gaf"

"So nim gas mich" has the following advantages:

- it sounds natural (no deviations)
- it generally fits into possible contexts
- letter shapes are in accordance with other letters in the folio

And it has only two drawbacks:

- there's actually no space between "gas" and "mich"
- the round object is unexplained

But neither of these two is avoided with "gaf" instead of "gas".

So my vote would be for "gas" as a working thread.

There is a serious drawback to either gasmich or gas mich. They don't mean anything. But that's not the only reason I proposed gaf as a possible alternative...



Look at the high-res scans. There is a somewhat vertical "channel"—an irregularity in the parchment where the pen has skipped on the letters on the two lines above. The pen may also have skipped on the last line.



Look closely. You can even see a trace of the beginning and end of a possible stem on either side of the channel. If I hadn't seen that, I doubt that I would ever have considered gaf as a possible alternative and even now, after looking at it many times, I can't tell for certain if there was a stem intended, but I think the possibility has to be considered.



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