Claudian letters
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The Claudian letters were a set of three new letters for the Latin alphabet developed by the Roman emperor Claudius, who reigned the Roman Empire from the year 41 to the year 54. These letters, accord
Claudian pomerium marker, where written words ampliavit and terminavit use turned digamma (highlighted in red)
Latin alphabet
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The Latin alphabet is the set of letters used by the ancient Romans to write Classical Latin, later augmented with lower-case letters to write Medieval Latin. Its expansion into the core 26-letter mod
Claudian letters
…The Claudian letters were a set of three new letters for the Latin alphabet developed by the Roman emperor Claudius, who reigned the Roman Empire from the year 41 to the year 54. These letters, according to the emperor, were…
The Duenos inscription, dated to the 6th century BC, shows the earliest known form of the Old Latin alphabet.
The apices in this first-century inscription are very light. (There is one over the ó in the first line.) The vowel I is written taller rather than taking an apex. The interpuncts are comma-shaped, an elaboration of a more typical triangular shape. From the shrine of the Augustales at Herculaneum.
Inscription with triangle-shaped interpunct, 1st century.
Jeton from Nuremberg, c. 1553