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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, beyond just being a marker denoting the end of a work, it seems like it was the scribe's own little flair - like a visual signature.

I guess it being generified in Unicode is the only real tradeoff you could make.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Looking at the examples, I think a signature or watermark is almost definitely the best way I would describe a coronis