Re: New contribution N2676

[Richard Peevers]

Raymond,   Apropos 10186 G GREEK ARTABE SIGN   The identity of one glyph variant of ‘zero’ and one of ‘artabe’ raises an interesting problem.   If you look at e.g. ‘Siglae’ in RE 2.2 (1923) 2279-2315 you’ll see that Bilabel lists 16 glyph variants for the Artabe. The most common variants are the ones with a horizinal line (like a dash) with an arrangement of between one and three dots around it, sometimes the dots are solid and sometimes they are hollow circles.   For the ‘Zero’ there are, it seems to me, two main characters used for this: one is identical to the letter omicron and the other is a circle (more or less like an omicron) with a more or less elaborate bar over it. It’s only the second that we’d be looking to propose.   Now, unless Zero shares the same glyphic range as Artabe, I’m not sure that they can be unified.   It seems to me that here we need two characters: 1) Artabe (horizontal line surrounded by 1-3 dots/hollow circles) and 2) Zero (hollow circle with more or less elaborate line above.   Richard   Richard Peevers Research Associate Thesaurus Linguae Graecae 3450 Berkeley Place Irvine CA 92697-5550   www.tlg.uci.edu www.digressus.org