tc-list On-line image of P.Oxy. LVI 4499
Ben Crick
ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Thu Dec 16 09:45:23 EST 1999
On Thu 16 Dec 1999 (00:09:20), scarlson at mindspring.com wrote:
> 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 horizontal upper line. However, I can't tell
> the difference between the stigma in the MS and a normal sigma.
Stephen,
In my printed modern-Greek Bible, the numeral 6 (Stigma) is exactly like
an English capital S, with the top half somewhat larger than the bottom
half. There is a diacritical mark like an apostrophe ' immediately after
it, thus: S' ("Ess-dashed"). The ' indicates that it is a numeral, not
a letter.
Qoppa, BTW, looks like a 4 with the vertical bit above the crossbar missing.
Plus the ' to indicate "Numeral". That's 90. Ninety-one is 4A', etc., to
Rho (P'), one hundred.
There's no Sampi, so I can only imagine how it might look! (900). I would
imagine that Sigma (200) is written C', Sigma as in IHCOYC.
ERRWSQE
Ben
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