Editing Digamma (section)

=== Early handwriting ===
[[File:P. Oxy. LXVI 4499.jpg|thumb|right|A fragment of [[Papyrus 115]], showing the number "{{overline|{{lang|grc|χιϛ}}}}" (616, the "[[Number of the beast|Number of the Beast]]"), with a C-shaped digamma.]]

In cursive handwriting, the square-C form developed further into a rounded form resembling a "C" (found in papyrus manuscripts as <span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Greek Digamma cursive 01.svg|x16px]]</span>, on coins sometimes as <span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Greek Digamma cursive 08.svg|x16px]]</span>). It then developed a downward tail at the end (<span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Greek Digamma cursive 02.svg|x16px]]</span>, <span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Greek Digamma cursive 03.svg|x16px]]</span>) and finally adopted a shape like a Latin "s" (<span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Greek Digamma cursive 05.svg|x16px]]</span>)<ref>{{cite book|last=Gardthausen|first=Victor Emil|author-link=Victor Gardthausen|title=Griechische Palaeographie, Vol. 2|place=Leipzig|publisher=B.G. Teubner|year=1879|page=367}}</ref> These cursive forms are also found in stone inscriptions in late antiquity.<ref name="tod"/>