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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 2722961, member: 75937"]What you see as a Ω is the second Δ. What you're seeing as the second Δ is actually the <a href="http://www.rwaag.org/polos" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.rwaag.org/polos" rel="nofollow">polos crown</a> worn by Dikaiosyne.</p><p><br /></p><p>And there was no such thing as upper or lower case letters in the 2nd century AD. <font size="6">ω </font><font size="4">is simply the way omega is rendered in the uncial script in Alexandria and other parts of the Greek-speaking world. The use of separate upper and lower case letters in Greek did not happen until the late medieval period.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Here is a an example of the uncial script on a 5th century AD manuscript from Alexandria (Codex Alexandrinus). Many examples of the omega are shown:</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]617320[/ATTACH] </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 2722961, member: 75937"]What you see as a Ω is the second Δ. What you're seeing as the second Δ is actually the [URL='http://www.rwaag.org/polos']polos crown[/URL] worn by Dikaiosyne. And there was no such thing as upper or lower case letters in the 2nd century AD. [SIZE=6]ω [/SIZE][SIZE=4]is simply the way omega is rendered in the uncial script in Alexandria and other parts of the Greek-speaking world. The use of separate upper and lower case letters in Greek did not happen until the late medieval period. Here is a an example of the uncial script on a 5th century AD manuscript from Alexandria (Codex Alexandrinus). Many examples of the omega are shown: [ATTACH=full]617320[/ATTACH] [/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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