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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 8496196, member: 72790&quot;]Looking closely at the third from the bottom is making me think there is something odd about the writing. if I am reading the letters correctly it is rendered as SLAEUROS, except that the letter R is not a Greek letter. Our letter P is the Greek letter (pi)&nbsp; for R (rho). Perhaps the creator of these images just picked up some Greek letters (not really knowing Greek very well) and slipped up on the letter R which, if Greek would have been rendered as P. In other words the inscriptions may be just fantasy writing by someone who knew a bit of Greek. However, it is within the realm of possibility that the inscriptions are written in a local dialect, maybe some form of later Byzantine Greek. What is the provenance of these plaques?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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