cTh is a eTe?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

As far as the difference between the glyphs c e and h, it might come down to how the horizontal line is applied. Does the scribe write down a pair of c’s and then the line to join them, do they write the horizontal and second c in one stroke?

I believe the second mode is the norm.  I see a few (very few) cases where the ligature fails to join to the first e, but it always joins neatly to the second e.

But the issue is more complicated if there was a global restoration pass that retraced most of the text.

All the best, --stolfi