Re: Greek letters ...
| From: | <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 16, 2001, 13:59 |
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On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> As we seem to have alot of experts on Greek writing on the list, I dug up a
> little question ...
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> In a book on Christian symbols, I found several examples of Sigma looking
> like a Latin "C". Was this common during Imperial Roman times?
Actually, it's been common for a very long time. The West exaggerated
the upper curve on one form of the small sigma. In the East, there were
several versions, including the version that virtually eliminated the
upper curve.