Ruby's Greek Thread

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Do you find, like me, that the words « fchedol shedy » in 115v are placed slightly apart from the rest of the line, as if it were a title or a reference?

It could be sort of emphasis.  The p/f gallows seem to be fancy versions of other gallows or combinations, that are used mostly on the head lines of parags  (as in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) and occasionally inside parags.  Not quite how we use capital letters today, but the same general idea.  In the first example, once the scribe had decided to use an f gallows for that phrase, he (unconsciously?) lowered the baseline to get a bot more space for it.

Or it could also be that the Scribe could not make out those two words on the draft, so he left a  blank space, and wrote them later, after asking the Author to clarify the reading.

In the second example, the baseline shift is not that notable. It could be just the Scribe shifting on the chair between one word an the next...

All the best, --stolfi