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To me is does not matter where you saw omega or if you take the small or capital or cursive letter, the Greek word for egg is still 'ón'.

I think it does matter.

The odds of someone in the 15th century seeing or using the capital letter shape for Omega is quite low, as shown by my examples. Most scribes used the lowercase shape. Many monuments used the lowercase shape. The uppercase examples on monuments are very old and somewhat scarce.

When Greek alphabets were written in western manuscripts, they usually did not include the uppercase shape.

Unless they had actually studied Greek or visited or lived in Grecian lands or colonies, or paid attention to monuments that were not easy to access, the odds of someone in the 15th century using the uppercase shape is quite low.



So... either it isn't Omega, or the person who wrote it had knowledge of Greek shapes that the average person outside of Greece or the Greek colonies would not know or would be unlikely to choose.