K

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Character
Customary name:	kappa

Variants and attestation

Transliteration	Sinistroverse		Dextroverse
	Glyph	Number	Glyph	Number
K		39		15
K2		7		3
K3		7		4
K4		2		3

The most prevalent form of Kappa is one with full-length bars meeting in the middle. Forms with shortened bars occur sporadically all over the Raetic area; sometimes consistently in one inscription, but also mixed (e.g. IT-5). The very similar variants and are distinguished on account of the fact that the former occurs exclusively in a certain type of petrograph (see Raetic epigraphy). This is also the case for rounded K5 s (cp. the frequency of rounded forms of Alpha and Upsilon in rock inscriptions).