JSP volume on BoA manuscripts notes the likelihood that Abraham 1:12, 14 are insertions.
Robin Scott Jensen and Brian M. Hauglid, ed., The Joseph Smith Papers, Revelations and Translations, Volume 4: Book of Abraham and Related Manuscripts (Salt Lake City, UT: Church Historian's Press, 2018), 195, 197, 239
and that you might have a knowl=-edge of this alter〈I will refer you to the representation that is at the (commencement of this record〉It was made after, the form of a bedsted such as was had . . .
. . .
〈That you may have an understanding of their gods I have
given you the fashion of them in the figures at the begining
which manner of figures is called by the Chaldians, {Ca◊\K}a{k\h}-lee=
-nos{-\.}— -〉
. . .
While the ink looks uniform, both the content and cramped nature of the final lines indicate that this text was inserted after character 8 and at least the first line of that paragraph were written. Book of Abraham Manuscript–B has this text inline; this version is unique in having the text inserted. (See p. 207 herein.)
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The content and spacing of this paragraph, along with similar revisions to the line at the bottom of the previous page, suggest that this paragraph was inserted. Book of Abraham Manuscript–B has this text inline; this version is unique in having the text inserted. (See p. 209 herein.)