tc-list On-line image of P.Oxy. LVI 4499

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Thu Dec 16 00:09:20 EST 1999


At 11:58 AM 12/15/99 -0500, Rodney J. Decker wrote:
>I'm not so sure that "stigma" is a typo. The character does, indeed, appear 
>to be a stigma--which is what it should be if it represents the numeral 
>"6." (Stigma is an old Greek character; in koine, it is only used as a 
>numeral. It does not appear in the NT.)

It should be a stigma (for '6'), but I'm not sure what an uncial stigma/
digamma should look like.  In printed Greek texts, such as the pages of
Erasmus' Greek NT I've seen, the stigma looks like a final sigma with an
elongated horizonatal upper line.  However, I can't tell the difference
between the stigma in the MS and a normal sigma.

Stephen Carlson
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