I've been re-reading John Allegro's old book on the copper scroll with its transcription and drawn representation, and something is bothering me. In every scroll that I know of, the letter he is made with a horizontal stroke across the top of the two uprights and extending just a smidge beyond the left one, while heth is made with two uprights and a slightly lowered bar between them, sort of like a poorly-written Latin H. Allegro's transcription of the copper scroll, based on the drawings on the opposite pages, appears to reverse these two letters, with the H-shaped one transcribed as he and the other as heth. Is this a particular feature of that one scroll, Allegro's speculation, or my bifocals acting up again?
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