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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3451520, member: 19463"]Poseidonia, fourree stater 480-400 BC</p><p>This coin not only has the legends right to left but shows the archaic sigma that is turned to look like an M.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]917237[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: Boustrophedon on a coin</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon</a></p><p><b>Boustrophedon</b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" rel="nofollow">/ˌbuːstrəˈfiːdən/</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" rel="nofollow">Ancient Greek</a>: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%B7%CE%B4%CF%8C%CE%BD#Ancient_Greek" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%B7%CE%B4%CF%8C%CE%BD#Ancient_Greek" rel="nofollow">βουστροφηδόν</a>, <i><i>boustrophēdón</i></i> "ox-turning" from <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CE%BF%E1%BF%A6%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CE%BF%E1%BF%A6%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" rel="nofollow">βοῦς</a>, <i><i>bous</i></i>, "ox", <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%AE#Ancient_Greek" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%AE#Ancient_Greek" rel="nofollow">στροφή</a>, <i><i>strophē</i></i>, "turn" and the adverbial suffix -δόν, "like, in the manner of"; that is, turning like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ox" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ox" rel="nofollow">oxen</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough" rel="nofollow">ploughing</a>)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> is a type of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional_text" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional_text" rel="nofollow">bi-directional text</a>, mostly seen in ancient <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript" rel="nofollow">manuscripts</a> and other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigraphy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigraphy" rel="nofollow">inscriptions</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#cite_note-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> Every other line of writing is flipped or reversed, with reversed letters. Rather than going left-to-right as in modern European languages, or right-to-left as in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" rel="nofollow">Arabic</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" rel="nofollow">Hebrew</a>, alternate lines in boustrophedon must be read in opposite directions. Also, the individual characters are reversed, or mirrored. It was a common way of writing in stone in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece" rel="nofollow">Ancient Greece</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#cite_note-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3451520, member: 19463"]Poseidonia, fourree stater 480-400 BC This coin not only has the legends right to left but shows the archaic sigma that is turned to look like an M. [ATTACH=full]917237[/ATTACH] Next: Boustrophedon on a coin [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon[/url] [B]Boustrophedon[/B][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English']/ˌbuːstrəˈfiːdən/[/URL] ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language']Ancient Greek[/URL]: [URL='https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%B7%CE%B4%CF%8C%CE%BD#Ancient_Greek']βουστροφηδόν[/URL], [I][I]boustrophēdón[/I][/I] "ox-turning" from [URL='https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CE%BF%E1%BF%A6%CF%82#Ancient_Greek']βοῦς[/URL], [I][I]bous[/I][/I], "ox", [URL='https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%AE#Ancient_Greek']στροφή[/URL], [I][I]strophē[/I][/I], "turn" and the adverbial suffix -δόν, "like, in the manner of"; that is, turning like [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ox']oxen[/URL] in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough']ploughing[/URL])[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#cite_note-1'][1][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#cite_note-2'][2][/URL] is a type of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional_text']bi-directional text[/URL], mostly seen in ancient [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript']manuscripts[/URL] and other [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigraphy']inscriptions[/URL].[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#cite_note-3'][3][/URL] Every other line of writing is flipped or reversed, with reversed letters. Rather than going left-to-right as in modern European languages, or right-to-left as in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language']Arabic[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language']Hebrew[/URL], alternate lines in boustrophedon must be read in opposite directions. Also, the individual characters are reversed, or mirrored. It was a common way of writing in stone in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece']Ancient Greece[/URL].[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#cite_note-4'][4][/URL][/QUOTE]
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