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I did a bit of a search for Aramaic numbers, and found a few different sites listing them. The transliterations into Roman characters varied quite a lot, so I just picked one that looked relatively simple.

If I recall correctly, in the movie the language is Ancient Greek, but Aramaic was shorter and easier to fit into the speech bubble.


It turns out that the actual words in the movie are Modern Greek. Apparently the producers contacted an expert to ask for the numbers in Greek. The expert replied, "Ancient or Modern?" The producers answered, "Erm... whatever they would have used in 1912." So they got Modern.

This story may well be apocryphal, but it sounds good.

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