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After the establishment of the canonical classic Greek alphabet, new glyph variants for Ε were introduced through handwriting.

In the uncial script ( used for literary papyrus manuscripts in late antiquity and then in early medieval vellum codices ), the " lunate " shape ( x12px ) became predominant.

In cursive handwriting, a large number of shorthand glyphs came to be used, where the cross-bar and the curved stroke were linked in various ways.

Some of them resembled a modern lowercase Latin " e ", some a " 6 " with a connecting stroke to the next letter starting from the middle, and some a combination of two small " c "- like curves.

Several of these shapes were later taken over into minuscule book hand.

Of the various minuscule letter shapes, the inverted-3 form became the basis for lower-case Epsilon in Greek typography during the modern era.