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Archaic Greek epichoric letter forms (not in Unicode) · 32 signs

Local archaic Greek letter shapes that Unicode Greek does not encode as distinct characters (digamma, qoppa, san, sampi, heta and Pamphylian digamma are already in Unicode).

This script is not in Unicode, so each sign was drawn from published sign tables. Hover a sign for its reading, the source it was drawn from, and where scholars disagree.

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Beta, Theran form

Beta, Theran rounded form

Beta, Argive form

Beta, Melian form

Beta, Gortynian form

b · Gortyn (Crete)

Beta, Corinthian form

Beta, Megarian/Byzantine form

b · Megara, Byzantium

Delta, pointed-D form

d · red (western) alphabets, Euboea

Epsilon, archaic oblique-armed

e · early, general

Sicyonian e-letter (X-shaped)

e / ɛː · Sicyon

Thespian tack-eta

e (raised) · Thespiae (Boeotia), 424 BC

Digamma, oblique

w · early, general

Digamma, angular (C-like)

w · later local

Digamma, Cretan Y-derived

w · early Crete

Digamma, Cretan bent-stem

w · early Crete

Gamma, pointed-C form

g · Euboea, mainland, West

Crooked iota, four strokes

i · early; kept where san replaced sigma

Crooked iota, three strokes

Lambda, Gamma-shaped

l · Euboea, Attica, Boeotia

Mu, archaic long-left-leg

m · early; kept where san used

Pi, short right leg

p · archaic, general

Pi, rounded top

Rho, tailed (R-shaped)

r · red alphabets, Euboea

Sigma, three-stroke (S-like)

s · Attic, Euboean, several red alphabets

Mantinean tsan (И-like)

ts? · Mantinea (Arcadocypriot)

Theta, crossed

th · archaic, general

Upsilon, twig-shaped

u · many local scripts

Upsilon, V-shaped

u · many local scripts

Psi/Chi, branches from the bottom (V-shaped)

ps / kh · blue (ps) / red (kh) alphabets

Psi/Chi, arrow form

ps / kh · local

Xi, with vertical stem

Zeta, straight-stemmed (I-shaped)

z(d) · all archaic local alphabets