01/09/2026
Someone once practised the Latin alphabet on this roof tile, in an old German script, possibly Kurrent.
The letters were scratched into the clay before it was fired, probably sometime in the nineteenth century. Who made them? Perhaps a young apprentice, someone learning to write, someone teaching another person, or simply someone proud of being able to write. Who knows?
Iacob Mihai gave us this tile on 23 August, exactly eight years after our old house in Alma Vii became ours. It felt like the most extraordinary gift.
The story is now in our Journal. ⬆️