Timotheus roll

manuscript

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style of Greek writing

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    In calligraphy: Ptolemaic period

    In the Timotheus roll in Berlin (dated 350–330 bce) or in the curse of Artemisia in Vienna (4th century bce), the writing is cruder, and ω is in transition to what is afterward its invariable written form. Similar features can be seen in the earliest precisely dated…

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