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2. Hard to recognize any characters in the image -- maybe closer to Roman script than to Greek or Slavonic ?

Tue Jun 2, 2026, 09:27 PM

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https://assets.apnews.com/f6/b0/9a2f7b5ddd535276814cdae144ee/56d0d865d9a046b9914edde09535a980

Carolignian miniscule might be a good guess for the script, but doesn't necessarily provide any clue about the language, since many languages were written in the same script.

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