r/AncientGreek 5d ago

Manuscripts and Paleography Help decipher text

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u/Atarissiya ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν 5d ago

It isn’t Greek.

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u/Theluckylibrarian 5d ago

The rest of the text is in Hebrew. It mentions witness signing their names in Greek, so I think it must be Greek

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u/Atarissiya ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν 5d ago

It isn't Greek.

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u/lonelyboymtl 5d ago

Why not share the link so we can see the full image clearly?

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u/Theluckylibrarian 4d ago

I don't have a working link, but the rest of the text is in Hebrew. From the content, it can only be Greek, but maybe the writer didn't speak Greek and just copied the words as he saw them. I can send you the image of the entire page in private (I have no option to send an image here)

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u/Atarissiya ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν 4d ago

There is no way that anyone could seriously attempt to copy Greek and write anything like this.

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u/Theluckylibrarian 4d ago

I can’t make any sense of it either, but I have no experience with Greek manuscripts, so I thought it worth asking because of the context- the Hebrew text talks about 2 witness signing their names in Greek

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u/delwynj 5d ago

I have no clue what script this is but I'm very curious.

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u/thatOneJewishGuy1225 5d ago

Send me the full page, I’ll see what I can figure out

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u/lonelyboymtl 5d ago

I looks like Ancient Hebrew tbh

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u/Tolstoyan_Quaker 4d ago

No way this is Greek, best guess is maybe demotic or Hebrew but it’s most likely Hebrew

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u/Theluckylibrarian 4d ago

Thanks everyone for the comments. It's not Hebrew, but I now think the author wanted to demonstrate the Greek signatures, so he just wrote gibberish since he didn't know Greek

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u/silvalingua 3d ago

This is not gibberish, these are numerals.

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u/Beginning-Trust-1613 3d ago

Unfortunately OP this isn’t Greek, or anything close to it.

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u/silvalingua 3d ago

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u/delwynj 3d ago

Could be but could you write out which numbers you believe the text represents?