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by hiphys
Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:40 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Kalindoia Inscription
Replies: 12
Views: 6651

Re: The Kalindoia Inscription

I never wrote that Eukleides' reform intoduced newly invented letters, but rather that Athens adopted Ionic alphabet: here omega and H as long \e\ were characteristic features. As for masculine singular genetive in Ionic prose inscriptions is never -oio, but -o (long): the former feature occurs only...
by hiphys
Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:19 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Kalindoia Inscription
Replies: 12
Views: 6651

Re: The Kalindoia Inscription

I think that the dating of this inscription, as reported by the book (334-305 BC.), is quite exact, for many reasons: 1) It seems this alphabet is written according to the 'reform of Eucleides', that took place in 403\2 BC. In this alphabet there was a place for 'omega', H was the letter for long \e...