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Eta is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel,. Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative,, in most dialects of Ancient Greek, its sound value
Eta (heta) in the function of /h/ on the ostrakon of Megacles, son of Hippocrates, 487 BC. Inscription: ΜΕΓΑΚLES HIΠΠΟΚRATOS equivalent to the later Μεγακλῆς Ἱπποκράτους. On display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa of Attalus.
Eta in the function of /h/ on an Attic red-figured calyx-krater, 515 BC. Amongst the depicted figures are Hermes and Hypnos. Inscriptions: ΗΕΡΜΕΣ – ΗΥΠΝΟΣ.
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The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and is the earliest known alphabetic scrip
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…Eta ( EE-tə, AY-tə; uppercase Η, lowercase η; Ancient Greek: ἦτα ē̂ta or Greek: ήτα ita ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel, . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative, , in most dialects of Ancient Greek, its sound…
Dipylon inscription, one of the oldest preserved inscriptions in the Greek alphabet, c. 740 BC
Early Greek alphabet on pottery in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, c. 420 BC
Excerpt from the second-century Bankes Homer manuscript, already displaying a hand very much like the fourth-century biblical uncial
A 16th-century edition of the New Testament (Gospel of John), printed in the renaissance typeface Grecs du roi by Claude Garamond