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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Only a Poor Old Man, post: 7843920, member: 111037&quot;]I have never come across any examples with just the city names (apart from ΤΑΡΑΣ). [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] example may have been a potential suspect because of the lack of omega Ω in ΡΟΔΙΟΝ, but [USER=110226]@robinjojo[/USER] &#039;s example also has a regular o instead, so that theory goes out of the window. Also, I would have expected that in that case it would be ΡΟΔΟΝ instead of ΡΟΔΙΟΝ. Let&#039;s not forget that Rhodian coins are all about the pun of the island&#039;s name and the popular flower also depicted on the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The plot thickens when you take into account the various Greek dialects and their evolution over the centuries. Most of us have just a slight familiarity with the attic standard dialect used more widely in the scholar texts of the Hellenistic age, but things were a lot more complex, especially in archaic times. This basic Wikipedia article gives a taste of the number of dialects spoken in Greece and their territorial influence (some interesting maps in the article and a list of spelling evolution):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attic_Greek" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attic_Greek" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attic_Greek</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So, in order to answer [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] &#039;s question we may need the help of a linguist after all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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