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==History== {{see also|Archaic Greek alphabets}} The letter beta was derived from the [[Phoenician alphabet|Phoenician letter]] [[Bet (letter)|beth]] [[Image:Phoenician beth.svg|20px|Beth]]. The letter Ξ had the largest number of highly divergent local forms. Besides the standard form (either rounded or pointed, {{GrGl|Beta 16}}), there were forms as varied as {{GrGl|Beta 12}} ([[Gortyn]]), {{GrGl|Beta 01}} and {{GrGl|Beta 10}} ([[Thera]]), {{GrGl|Beta 03}} ([[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]]), {{GrGl|Beta 05}} ([[Melos]]), {{GrGl|Beta Corinth 1}} ([[Corinth]]), {{GrGl|Beta Byzantium 1}} ([[Megara]], [[Byzantium]]), and {{GrGl|Gamma C-shaped}} ([[Cyclades]]).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jeffery |first1=Lilian Hamilton |title=The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece |date=1961 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=23}}</ref>
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