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| Keywords: Archaic Attic abecedarium.svg abecedarium mid-6th century BC found carved in a rock surface in Attica Drawn and coloured by me after Merle K Langdon 2005 A New Greek Abecedarium Kadmos 44 1 “2 175 “182 <br/> Text reads bottom retrograde blue Î‘Î’Î“Î”Î•Ï Î–Î—Î˜Î™ÎšÎ›Î Î ÎŸ left edge turned sidewards red ΠϺϘ top turned green ΡΣΤ top left-to-right purple ΥΧΦ <br/>This is said to be the first known native Greek example of an abecedarium containing both Sigma top row green and San left edge red together in an abecedarium and the first known attestation of San in Attica It also shows an uncommon curved form of Digamma bottom 6th character from the right own Future Perfect at Sunrise 2010-09-21 Greek alphabet Texts in Greek script rendered to SVG | ||||
