Sometimes the scribe simply couldn’t make up their mind what they were trying to write…
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Mandaic alphabet, here’s a better illustration:
Quite sloppy. I’m still trying to figure out how to represent this with sigla…
Luckily the scribe just gave up and re-wrote it from scratch as the next word. 🙂
UPDATE: Here’s how it looked in the manuscript where we can see that the scribe just gave up and started over:
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| /mlalkun/ “your (pl.) speech” was intended as you can see. 🙂 |
Peace,
-Steve
