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JW
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Qbe wrote:
JW wrote:
Qbe wrote:
| It strongly resembles (to my eye) the Late Semitic script... |
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Yes, I see that with ישראל (yisrael) but the shin and mem of שלומ (shalom) , and the lamed of על (al) don't look right... |
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Those were the most difficult characters, I agree.
The copy (on the Nativity scene) makes them more difficult than necessary, I think. If you look at the image of the mosaic, it's a lot easier to understand:
The initial shin of שלומ (shalom) doesn't look like the other because the right-hand side of the character appears damaged in the mosaic. The copyist took what he saw.
The final mem of שלומ (shalom) looks more like a modern nun in the Nativity scene. However, in the mosaic the final mem clearly looks almost like a box or square, as final mem is written in modern block script.
The lamedh is much easier to see if you cover up the topmost horizontal/diagonal stroke: then it looks like a modern block script lamedh (printed lamedh often has a little hook or curve at the very top).
That middle lamedh is much easier to see in the mosaic. The Nativity scene reproduces it with a lot more flourish than necessary, and that made it the most difficult character to reconcile.
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Ah, now I get it. The copyist did not know what he was copying so he simply reproduced what he saw on the mosaic--including the corruptions in some of the letters. Very interesting indeed--quite good work on your part to deduce that--kudos.
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