is represented by ||, as E is by ||. It must be admitted that the resemblance between the sixth symbol of the Phoenician alphabet and the corresponding symbol of the European alphabet is not striking. But the position of the limbs of symbols in early alphabets often varies surprisingly. In Greek, besides
we find for f in Pamphylia (the only Greek district in Asia which possesses the symbol)
, and in Boeotia, Thessaly, Tarentum, Cumae and on Chalcidian vases of Italy the form
, though except at Cumae and on the vases the form
exists contemporaneously with