in the fifth century was confined to localities of which we have no complete epigraphic record, or (2) that
as a form of iota was still known—as archaic forms must have been—from the older public inscriptions, and was adopted by the inventor of the notation as being better suited to his purpose than
.
With regard to the place of origin of the notation the chief fact which we have to deal with is the use of the character
for lambda, which is distinctive of the alphabet of Argos, along with the commoner form
