Re: Qumran Greek

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 17:36:21 EST

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At 13:34 -0800 2003-12-08, Elaine Keown wrote:
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>I include 2 Qumran symbols that are probably Greek.

Obviously it's impossible to tell from two tiny gifs....

>I'm looking for help with the large 'X'.

I would guess that the first of your symbols, if Greek, is a
PARAGRAPHOS or a FORKED PARAGRAPHOS. It's also used in Coptic.

The X looks like a CHI of course.

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