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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae®

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The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae® (TLG®) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG® has created a digital library which contains most literary texts written in Greek from Homer (8 BC) to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.

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A proposal to encode Greek Acrophonic characters in UCS

(2004)

Acrophonic numerals are found primarily in ancient Greek inscriptions from Athens and other Greek city-states. This article documents 53 acrophonic characters that were proposed and subsequently accepted for inclusion in the Unicode Standard.