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Is it an I or is it a T?

The letters of this tombstone are in general nicely carved out, but sometimes the mason did a poor job in differentiating between the I and the T.

Look for example at the first two words of the message to the reader. Whereas the second word TIBI is easy to read, one has to look twice before realizing that the first word is ITA. The first two letters are very similar.

What does not help either is that the usual dot, indicating a break between two words, is missing here. The mason made some other slip-ups when working on this stone.