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I apololgize for being unable to explain myself. There are two kinds of questions in this inscription. 1) Is it Ionic or Attic or neither? 2) Which century does the inscription belong to: V or IV B.C.? 1) The first question is related very strictly to the second: if the inscription is Ionic, the alp...

I never wrote that Eukleides' reform intoduced newly invented letters, but rather that Athens adopted Ionic alphabet: here omega and H as long \e\ were characteristic features. As for masculine singular genetive in Ionic prose inscriptions is never -oio, but -o (long): the former feature occurs only...

I think that the dating of this inscription, as reported by the book (334-305 BC.), is quite exact, for many reasons: 1) It seems this alphabet is written according to the 'reform of Eucleides', that took place in 403\2 BC. In this alphabet there was a place for 'omega', H was the letter for long \e...