2aisi20%6 Alc numerals - Wikipedia, ta tree encyclopedia Attic numerals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Attic numerals were used by the ancient Greeks, possibly from the 7th century BC. They were also known as Herodianic numerals because they were first described in a 2nd-century manuscript by Herodian, They are also known as acrophonic numerals because the symbols derive from the first letters of the words that the symbols represent: five, ten, hundred, thousand and ten thousand. See Greek numerals and acrophony. Decimal Symbol Greek numeral IPA 1 T - - 5 1 neve (pente] 10 A Sexo [deka] 100 | ixatov {hekaton] 1000 |X aor / dds | [Ktilioi / kilias] 10000 M héptov [myrion] The use of H for 100 reflects the early date of this numbering system: H (Eta) in the early Attic alphabet represented the sound /hy. In later, "classical" Greek, with the adoption of the Ionic alphabet throughout the majority of Greece, the letter eta had come to represent the long e sound while the rough aspiration was no longer marked.“JI {t wasn't until Aristophanes of Byzantium introduced the various accent markings during the Hellenistic period that the spiritus asper began to represent /h/. Thus the word for a hundred would originally have been written HEKATON, as compared to the now more familiar spelling éxatév. In modem Greek, the /h/ phoneme has disappeared altogether, but this has had no effect on the basic spelling, Unlike the more familiar Modern Roman numeral system, the Attic system contains only additive forms. Thus, the number 4 is written HII, not HT. The numerals representing 50, 500, and 5,000 were composites of pi (often in an old form, with a short right leg) and a tiny version of the applicable power of ten. For example, [* is five times one thousand. The acrophonic numerals in comparison to the Roman numeral system. I I A PB H PF x PF M 5 5 5 x x x 10000 10 100 1000 1 5 10 100 1000 1000 | 1000 50 500 x x 5 | 10 I vi x LL ¢C|D iM x Example: 1982 = X/HHHH. PAAAI = MCM.LXXxXIL. hepssin wikipdia orgwikiAtc_eumorals 122aisi20%6 Alc numerals - Wikipedia, ta tree encyclopedia Specific numeral symbols were used to represent one drachma,_*l to represent talents'“l and staters,{5l to represent ten mnas!®l and to represent one halfl7) and one quarter.{8! See also = Attic numerals in Unicode = Etruscan numerals Notes and references 1, Woodhead, A. G. (1981). The Study of Greek Inscriptions. Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-521-23188-4. 2, Smyth, Herbert Weir; Messing, Gordon M. (2002) [1920]. Greek Grammar. Revised Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 10 (§14). ISBN 0-674-36250-0. Unicode character U+10142: Unicode characters U+10148 to U+1014E, Unicode characters U+1014F to U+10156 Unicode character U+10157: L Unicode character U+10141 Unicode character U+10140; 7 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attic_numeralsd&coldid=634279503" Categories: Numerals | Ancient Athens | Greek mathematics | Ancient Greek society = This page was last modified on 17 November 2014, at 21:30, = Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply, By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. hepssin wikipdia orgwikiAtc_eumorals 2p