Sampi

Sampi (Ϡ, ϡ) is an old Greek number sign that stands for the number 900. In early Ancient Greek it was sometimes also used as a real letter of the Greek alphabet, but only in the dialect of a few Greek cities in Ionia (for example Miletus) between the 7th century and 5th century BC. At that time sampi looked like Ͳ, and it was probably spoken like "ts" or "tch". Later, people stopped writing it because they no longer spoke the words that way, and they wrote double sigma (ΣΣ) instead. However, people also used Greek letters to write numbers, and here they kept sampi to write the number 900. Over time, the form of sampi was changed from Ͳ to File:Greek uncial Sampi.svg or x16px and at last to File:Sampi.svg.

File:Sampi.svg
Greek alphabet
Αα	Alpha	Νν	Nu
Ββ	Beta	Ξξ	Xi
Γγ	Gamma	Οο	Omicron
Δδ	Delta	Ππ	Pi
Εε	Epsilon	Ρρ	Rho
Ζζ	Zeta	Σσς	Sigma
Ηη	Eta	Ττ	Tau
Θθ	Theta	Υυ	Upsilon
Ιι	Iota	Φφ	Phi
Κκ	Kappa	Χχ	Chi
Λλ	Lambda	Ψψ	Psi
Μμ	Mu	Ωω	Omega
Other letters
Ϝϝ	Digamma	Ⱶⱶ	Heta
Ϻϻ	San	Ϙϙ	Koppa
Ϡϡ	Sampi	Ϛϛ	Stigma
Ϸϸ	Sho
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Sampi Media

• Greek Sampi rounded.svg

  Greek letter Sampi, rounded palaeographic form

• NAMA Héraclès & Nessos.jpg

  The Nessus amphora, with the name "ΝΕΤΟΣcode: grc is deprecated " (possibly obliterating earlier "ΝΕͲΟΣcode: grc is deprecated ") on the right

• Greek Sampi Pamphylian.svg

  Greek letter Sampi, ancient epigraphic form from Pamphylia

• Greek Sampi Pamphylian.svg

  Greek letter Sampi, ancient epigraphic form from Pamphylia

• Greek Sampi Pamphylian.svg

  Greek letter Sampi, ancient epigraphic form from Pamphylia

• Greek Sampi Pamphylian.svg

  Greek letter Sampi, ancient epigraphic form from Pamphylia

• Greek Sampi Pamphylian.svg

  Greek letter Sampi, ancient epigraphic form from Pamphylia

• Greek Digamma angular.svg

  One epigraphic letter shape of ancient Greek letter Wau.