[Σαν ](Greek name prob.σάν(v.
A.
Σ ς
B. 2
), eighteenth letter in the Etruscan abecedaria ( IG 14.2420 ) and probably in the oldest Gr. alphabets, occupying the same serial position as the Hebrew Tsade (<*>, Phoenician <*> <*> Syria 6.103 ), with which it may be identified. In many of the oldest Gr. alphabets it represents the sounds, for which <*> and <*> (twenty-first letter in the Etruscan abecedaria) is an alternative representation preferred in other Gr. alphabets. It is uncertain whether the letter <*> (name and serial position unknown), which represents the soundσςin Schwyzer 707 (Ephesus,vi B.C.), 701
A 17 (Erythrae,v B.C.), SIG 4.6 (Cyzicus,vi B.C.), 45.2 , al. (Halic.,v B.C.) and the third sound (σς?) in the name of Mesambria inBMus.Cat.Coins Thrace
p.132 , is to be identified withΜ.
0-0. It is also uncertain whether the numerical symbol <*> (= 900 ), described by Gal. 17(1).525 , which has this form in PEleph. 1
(iv B.C.), PCair.Zen. 22.5
(iii B.C.), Rev.Phil. 35.138 (Thessaly,iii B.C.), Milet. 6.39
(ii B.C.), where it forms part of a symbol for thousands, and later the formsΤ