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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2478769, member: 19463&quot;]Welcome.&nbsp; The reason that I participate in this forum is at least partially because a good proportion of the members don&#039;t take themselves as seriously as you might find elsewhere.&nbsp; We do have quite a range of posters and a similar group of lurkers but perfection is neither a requirement nor benefit of membership.&nbsp; I suspect you will find you know more people here than you might have guessed.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, reading later Alexandrian tets is very much an acquired skill.&nbsp; The later ones like Maximianus and Diocletian seemed to try hard to cut legends in tiny, cryptic letters.&nbsp; I find it useful to look for what I would call a typical letter that can help direct your eye to the rest of the reading.&nbsp; For Maximianus and Galerius, it is the Ξ.&nbsp; For Diocletian it is the tiny o in DIoK.&nbsp; You don&#039;t make ID&#039;s on these alone but you wonder why they are not there id they are not.&nbsp; The nice Aurelian as shown here is easier to read from the Λ ΔOM than from the Aurelianus part.&nbsp; That is not unusual.&nbsp; I remain amazed at the number of lower grade specimens with perfectly clear AK and CEB but no other legible letter.&nbsp; Experts (not I) might learn to read the letters like kids today must do if they have a grandmother who writes to them in cursive.&nbsp; I will warn that this particular group includes a few people who like late Alexandrians and are working on the skills.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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