σάν

Ϻ (Greek name prob. σάν (v. Σ ς B. 2),

• eighteenth letter in the Etruscan abecedaria (IG 14.2420) and probably in the oldest Gr. alphabets, occupying the same serial position as the Hebrew Tsade, Phoenician Sadi Syria 6.103), with which it may be identified. In many of the oldest Gr. alphabets it represents the sound s, for which ϟ and Σ (twenty-first letter in the Etruscan abecedaria) is an alternative representation preferred in other Gr. alphabets. It is uncertain whether the letter Ͳ (name and serial position unknown), which represents the sound σσ in Schwyzer 707 (Ephesus, vi B.C.), 701A 17 (Erythrae, v B.C.), SIG 4.6 (Cyzicus, vi B.C.), 45.2, al. (Halic., v B.C.) and the third sound (σσ?) in the name of Mesambria in BMus.Cat.Coins Thrace p.132, is to be identified with Ϻ.
• It is also uncertain whether the numerical symbol (= 900), described by Gal. 17(1).525, which has this form in PEleph. 1 (iv B.C.), PCair.Zen. 22.5 (iii B.C.), Rev.Phil. 35.138 (Thessaly, iii B.C.), Milet. 6.39 (ii B.C.), where it forms part of a symbol for thousands, and later the forms Τ JHS 26.287 (Athenian tesserae of iv B.C.), 25.342 (papyri of ii B.C.), SIG 695.83 (Magn. Mae., ii B.C.), IG 12(1).913 (Rhodes, i B.C.), [see print copy] ib. 2(2).2776.11, al. (ii A.D.), and [see print copy] (medieval Mss., called παρακύϊσμα in Sch. D.T. p.496 H.), is to be identified with either of the foregoing. The numerical symbol, in the form [see print copy], follows ω in an Attic abecedarium, Bullettino dell’ Inst. di corrisp. archeol. 1867.75, and that position tallies with its numerical value, since ω = 800. The extended alphabet used by Archim. Spir. 11, Aequil. 2.3 for a diagram ends with Ω Ϡ Ϙ.

σάν, v. Σ ς B. 2.

σάν Doric name for the letter sigma. πρὶν μὲν ἕρπε σχοινοτένειά τʼ ἀοιδὰ διθυράμβων καὶ τὸ σὰν κίβδηλον ἀνθρώποισιν ἀπὸ στομάτων (a ref. either to ἄσιγμοι ᾠδαί, Athen. 455c, or to mispronounciation of sigma, Wil.) Δ. 2. 3.

σάν v. Σ, ς 1.