[Blog Post] The Pattern of the Wheel on 57v

[Jorge_Stolfi]

You mean this detail. It is a combination sign and stands alone and is not a ‘ch’.

It is also used in other symbols and, in combination, represents a new character.

Look closer Real close. Dowload the full resolution jpeg form Beinecke and 
look at it with 200% magnification and play with the color curves:
   
You should see a very very very faint h (only a lttle fainter than the y of pchhy at 05:30 on the outer ring).  Making that weirdo at 07:00 into a perfeclty normal ch.

It is too bad that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is not one of the pages which were considered in the multispectral imaging project.

That 4x17 "quasi" repetition (and a LOT more of what we see on that and other pages) will suddenly make more sense if we accept that a lot of the original writing and drawing has faded out completely by now, and what we see of those parts are just the guesses of a later owner (or two) who decided to retrace them because they were already about to become invisible by then.

How could the supposedly indelible iron-gall ink fade so badly?  I have a simple theory, but will leave it for another post...

All the best, --jorge