Tabula Iliaca [apologies: off topic]
James Forsyth
james at bigbeing.com.au
Sun Apr 21 01:18:21 EDT 2002
Hi B-Greekers,
Apologies, as this is off topic.
Tabular Iliaca contains the following inscription on the top left:
IERONAPOLLWNOS[I]MINQEWS
XRUSHS
What is the significance/meaning of what appears to be an uncial iota
(although it's all in uncials anyway) but with a top and bottom stroke,
much like the English capital letter "I"? This doesn't appear with these
strokes (as far as I can see) in the rest of the document.
Liddell/Scott describe SMINQEWS as an "epithet of Apollo II.I.39. But
there is no explanation that I can find of this extra "I".
Thank you,
James Forsyth
More information about the B-Greek
mailing list