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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1834470, member: 5833"]Flipper reproduced this in post #9, including mysterious device right in front of it. There is something on the sleeve of the man in the foreground that could be NO. All the others are labeled, so this could be his.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can't figure what script this is, not something I know anything about. I do wonder whether if we were transliterating to modern English all those characters that look like W would still be Ws. Pcpower did a great job reproducing some of them; think the second letter of the first word is a 'Greek' E, not a weak C.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1834470, member: 5833"]Flipper reproduced this in post #9, including mysterious device right in front of it. There is something on the sleeve of the man in the foreground that could be NO. All the others are labeled, so this could be his. I can't figure what script this is, not something I know anything about. I do wonder whether if we were transliterating to modern English all those characters that look like W would still be Ws. Pcpower did a great job reproducing some of them; think the second letter of the first word is a 'Greek' E, not a weak C.[/QUOTE]
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