The glyphs fitting in between EVA /o/ and /ch/ that would come first to my mind would be /k/ and /t/, rather than /p/ since it isn't the top row or /l/ since this is a "Scribe 1" Herbal A folio, and /olch/ is a rarer combination in Scribe 1.
But there is a descender going down into the next line. It kind of looks as if the scribe did the descender for a q then changed their mind and wrote an o over it. There's also a sizeable gap between the o and the weird glyph, which could mean they belong to separate words...or it could be consistent with leaving space for the left "loop" of the q. I wonder if it is relevant that there is a rare initial oq word below it.
But then again, if the word is supposed to be initial och, that's a rare combination itself. The few instances it has tend to be in Scribe 1 Herbal A at Line Start, not in the midline.
I think this deserves splitting off from the thread.
But there is a descender going down into the next line. It kind of looks as if the scribe did the descender for a q then changed their mind and wrote an o over it. There's also a sizeable gap between the o and the weird glyph, which could mean they belong to separate words...or it could be consistent with leaving space for the left "loop" of the q. I wonder if it is relevant that there is a rare initial oq word below it.
But then again, if the word is supposed to be initial och, that's a rare combination itself. The few instances it has tend to be in Scribe 1 Herbal A at Line Start, not in the midline.
I think this deserves splitting off from the thread.
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