[B-Greek] strange looking pi?

frjsilver at optonline.net frjsilver at optonline.net
Mon Sep 25 19:59:39 EDT 2006


This is merely the way in which PI is written in cursive script, even in Modern Greek.

Father James Silver

----- Original Message -----
From: Curtis Hinson 
Date: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:45 pm
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] strange looking pi?
To: Jim Darlack , B Greek 
Cc: opoudjis at opoudjis.net

> Well, this is fun and interesting. Perhaps this information is 
> of interest:
> 
> http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/letters.html#lunatesigma
> 
> This guy (Nick Nicholas) is a research linguist/programmer for 
> TLG. The 
> information was of additional interest to me because some months 
> back I 
> asked if anyone knew why Greek even has terminal and internal 
> forms of 
> Sigma, instead of having positional forms for all letters like 
> Arabic, 
> or none at all, like English.
> 
> Also Dr Nicholas seems to promote the use of monotonic so that 
> makes him 
> cool in my book. :-D 
> 
> Bless the Name
> Curtis Hinson
> http://curtishinson.com
> 
> 
> Jim Darlack wrote the following on 9/25/2006 3:15 PM:
> > While looking at an old printed edition of the LXX, some 
> friends and I
> > came across a strange character that represents the letter pi.
> > 
> > The character basically looks like a lowercase omega with a 
> line across
> > the top.
> > 
> > See the jpeg here: http://www.oldinthenew.org/images/pi.jpg 
> (image of
> > Cardo font glyph U+03D6).
> > 
> > As far as I can tell, there's no rhyme or reason why this 
> character is
> > used rather than the regular pi.
> > 
> > For instance, both the traditional pi, and this other pi are 
> both used
> > in this scan (http://www.oldinthenew.org/images/pitxt.jpg). 
> Compare v.
> > 19 with the regular pi to vv. 26/27, 11 & 12 with the strange 
> pi. The
> > strange pi is only used when it begins a word, but the regular 
> pi is
> > used to begin a word as well. In 26/27, both characters are 
> used in the
> > same word - PROSWPA.
> > 
> > Note also the strangely formed beta in the first line in 
> FOBHQENTHS and
> > the second gamma in ANAGGEILWSI.
> > 
> > Curious,
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
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