VMs: Caravaca 'Cipher'

["Robert Antony Hicks" <rob_hicks_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Forgive me if this is old news.  Apparently, in the window of a chapel in 
the holy city of Caravaca (Spain), there is a circular text of unknown 
language in pecualiar characters.

I have just received a poor-quality clipping with a photo.  The clipping is 
from a local newspaper, and reveals next to nothing - not even the name of 
the chapel.  The photo shows a ring of 42 characters surrounding a curved 
cross (curved so it looks a little like a swastika).  It comprises some 30 
to 40 different characters (depending how you read them), with no obvious 
break (other than a kind of asterisk symbol, which could just be one of the 
characters).  The characters are a mixture of Romanesque letters (O E T M W 
R), and a few that are similar to Voynichese (the 'q', gallows and cursive 
-in, -iin endings).  I don't feel, at first glance, that there is a 
connection between this window and the VMS, but it is interesting.  With 
such a short text and so few repeated letters I'm not shocked to read that 
it has "baffled generations of scholars".  Surprisingly, I can find not a 
single reference to it on the net.

Anybody else know anything?

Rob

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