(04-07-2021, 08:41 AM)Searcher wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I agree that one cannot be certain what is written. One problem is that it is difficult to read the faded text, so it is not quite clear what any if the labels in the Rosettes T/O map actually say. My judgement is that it says EVA-asal, but it certainly could be read differently.(01-07-2021, 10:15 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In fact if anybody were to ask me which word in the Voynich I could best guess the meaning of, I would say, EVA-asal is "asia" as we read in the T/O map on the Rosettes folio.Why are you sure it is asal? It looks rather as osal or oral.
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This is one of those situations where even the current high resolution scans are insufficient to be able to come to a definite conclusion as to what is written.
I think the first letter in the half-circle vord is more like the third letter in the half-circle vord (EVA-a) than the third letter in the quarter-circle vord (EVA-o) as highlighted in red, but this is very much up to interpretation. So that is why I think it is an EVA-a.