Boustrophedon

A bit of semantic typography today.
BOUSTROPHEDON (Greek “as the ox draws the plow”) meaning the writing in which lines run alternately from right to left and left to right. It's fascinating that not only the direction of writing changes to right-left but letters also get replaced with their mirrored twins.
All references of said writing I could find were quite simplistic and I really struggled with the letter N. When mirroring it there's a catch: you have to write it with the thickest strokes being vertical (as in Cyrillic И ) if you consider the logic of the instrument. However, if the idea is just to mirror the letter then you'd have to leave the thickest stroke the middle one. But it seemed wrong for me so I went with the first option and followed the instrument

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