Re: Omega + upsilon ligature?

At 13:38 +0200 2002-10-02, Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>Therefore, I tentatively identified the word as "?????" ("ôurôn"), and the
>unknown glyph ligature as an "??" ligature ("ôu": omegha + upsilon).

Omicron upsilon.

>Does anyone know whether such a ligature actually existed in old typography?
>And was it anything like an open "8"?

Yes. I've seen it in modern graffitti in Athens too.
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