Davidsch > 29-02-2016, 02:58 PM
Anton > 29-02-2016, 03:18 PM
MarcoP > 29-02-2016, 03:45 PM
Davidsch > 29-02-2016, 03:49 PM
(29-02-2016, 03:18 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I remember we discussed the matter of "4" with Brian Cham in regard to the curious inscription in the centre of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. flower, and he pointed out that the "4" shape was already being used to designate the digit of "four" at the time when the VMS was created, along with the older shape.
You can find that discussion in his blog (briancham1994 @ wordpress) somewhere in 2014 in the comments to one of his posts dedicated to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (there were two).
MarcoP > 29-02-2016, 03:52 PM
-JKP- > 29-02-2016, 04:38 PM
Helmut Winkler > 01-03-2016, 11:00 AM
(29-02-2016, 03:45 PM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hi David,
I think the first example you posted is "Vita et felicitas": the 4 is created by joining an "e" and a "t".
The transcription of (a) is available here:
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I cannot read (b1).
I think (b2) is "et" again:
Sic fuit primus imp[er]ator declinato et exempto (should have been declinatus et exemptus)
So the first ruler was subsided and removed