Cara Giovanna: If we begin to surmise like this it seems there are limitless possibilities with one possible wild interpretation that the back inscription is a jumble of the proper name Traianos Gagos
John N. Lupia III New Jersey, USA; Beirut, Lebanon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Roman-Catholic-News/ God Bless Everyone --- On Thu, 9/18/08, Giovanna Menci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Giovanna Menci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PAPY] OGOISTAIS > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 9:27 AM > Dear All, > > OGOISTAIS could be an anagram. If one of the letters O is a > mistake for > /rho/, the word anagrammatized could be TRISAGIOS; and it > would be a > very early attestation. > > Best wishes > Giovanna Menci > > > --------------------------------- > Giovanna Menci > Centro Studi Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» > Università degli Studi di Firenze > Borgo degli Albizi, 12 > I-50122 Firenze > Italia > > > > > > Wieland Willker ha scritto: > > I have asked "Der Spiegel" and they sent me > an image of the back. > > Thank you very much! > > > > > > Have a look here: > > http://tinyurl.com/6amr2e > > > > What does that mean? > > Comments welcome! > > > > > > Best wishes > > Wieland > > <>< > > ------------------------------------------------ > > Wieland Willker, Bremen, Germany > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.uni-bremen.de/~wie > > Textcritical commentary: > > http://www.uni-bremen.de/~wie/TCG/index.html > > > >
