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Message:: [QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8318119, member: 128351"]This is not surprising. In epigraphy too you can see that Greek language evolves. First of all ancient Greek was a mosaic of dialects: Ionian, Dorian, Eolian, etc. Since the Hellenistic times a common Greek had emerged, the "koine", but professors decided that the classical form of the Greek language would be the Attic dialect of the 5th-4th c. BC. I remember my professor of Greek theme so proud of the translation he had proposed that he said: "I'm more Attic than Lysias !" The legend on the reverse of the Attic owls is AΘE, but in good classical Greek it should be AΘH, for Ἀθη(ναίων)... Many people who wrote Greek were not natural Greek speakers, especially in the Near-East. At Qalbloze in Syria there is an inscription dated c. 5-6th c. AD that reads: Ἄνγελος. / ἅγι(ος) / ὁ Χριστός. Note the spelling of  Ἄνγελος... Of course the correct spelling would be Ἄγγελος, but many people naturally write phonetically. Same in Latin. In Haidra, Tunisia, there is a late Roman tombstone that reads : Seberi/anus requi/ebit in pace / bixit [---] / de[positus ---. They already wrote B for V, like in Spanish they write Pablo for Paulus...[/QUOTE]