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Image: Greek numerals on 4th century papyrus

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Description: Detail from a 4th century cryptographic papyrus, showing the Greek numerals Digamma (blue), Koppa (green) and Sampi in the context of uncial Greek handwriting. Drawn (vectorized) by me and colorized for greater clarity, after a photograph of the papyrus (presumed PD-Art) published in Giovanna Menci (2010): Crittografia greca in Egitto: un nuovo testo. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor 2007 (American Studies in Papyrology), Ann Arbor. pp. 551–564. [1]
Title: Greek numerals on 4th century papyrus
Credit: Own work, photographic source see below
Author: Future Perfect at Sunrise
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