The back pages of Cappelli's Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane has a section: Sigle ed abbreviature epigrafiche. There is a fairly recent edition for sale.
Tom Izbicki
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Could T F be a half-erased Roman I (with cross-bars) E for IE(sus)?
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On 11 August 2018 12:53:16 BST, Otfried Lieberknecht <[log in to unmask]> wrote:medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and cultureDear Paul,
If I understand you right, the inscription is somehting like
S^ MARI^
I
H
L
TF
XP
X(?)IHL is frequent for I(sra)H(e)L = Israel (see L. Traube, Nomina scara, 1907, pp. 106ss.), and XP (or XPC, XPS) for XR(ICTOC) = Christus. I have nothing, however, for TF and X(?) that would help to establish a coherent phrasing.
Kind regards, O.
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On 11 August 2018 at 04:48 Paul Chandler <[log in to unmask]COM> wrote:
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and cultureA colleague is puzzling over a fragment of a fresco of the Virgin Mary and (probably) Christ. Over Mary is written horizontally S (abbrev sign over) MARI (abbrev sign over) for SANCTA MARIA, and then vertically under the S the following letters: I H L TF (conjoined = some form of tuus filius?). Then XP, then probably X. Perhaps the S is meant to be read as part of the sequence.******************************
Does anyone have any suggestion how to interpret these letters? -- Paul
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