Image: Protos Axon (Draco)
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Description: Drawing of the Greek phrase "ΠΡΟΤΟΣ ΑΧΣΟΝ" ("first axon"), taken from from an inscription dated 408-9 BC containing Draco's law on homicide. It illustrates the early use of the Greek letter O where later orthography would prefer Ω, (classical Greek spelling "πρώτος ἄξων").
Title: Protos Axon (Draco)
Credit: Kirchhoff, Adolph (1873) Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum, 1, Berlin: Georg Reimer, p. 38
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