Unicode Block - Ancient Symbols

Ancient Symbols is a collection of characters drawn from classical antiquity, primarily encompassing Greek and Roman cultural artifacts, including weights, measures, coins, and various inscriptions. Its repertoire features signs such as the Roman centurial symbol, the Greek numeral signs for the acrophonic system, and a range of weights and scales used in ancient commerce and law. These glyphs serve to represent historical notation systems that are no longer in everyday use, offering scholars and digital humanists a way to encode and display authentic textual or epigraphic material from ancient sources. The block fills a specific niche for representing non-alphabetic signs that appear in inscriptions, papyri, and metrological records, thereby preserving the graphical fidelity of ancient documentation in modern digital text.