Re: tc-list On-line image of P.Oxy. LVI 4499

From: Stephen C. Carlson (scarlson@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Dec 16 1999 - 00:09:20 EST


At 11:58 AM 12/15/99 -0500, Rodney J. Decker wrote:
>I'm not so sure that "stigma" is a typo. The character does, indeed, appear
>to be a stigma--which is what it should be if it represents the numeral
>"6." (Stigma is an old Greek character; in koine, it is only used as a
>numeral. It does not appear in the NT.)

It should be a stigma (for '6'), but I'm not sure what an uncial stigma/
digamma should look like. In printed Greek texts, such as the pages of
Erasmus' Greek NT I've seen, the stigma looks like a final sigma with an
elongated horizonatal upper line. However, I can't tell the difference
between the stigma in the MS and a normal sigma.

Stephen Carlson

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