Nipson anomemata me monan opsin


Nipson anomēmata mē monan opsin, meaning "Wash the sins, not only the face", or "Wash my transgressions, not only my face", is a Greek palindrome which was inscribed upon a holy water font outside the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople:
The phrase is attributed to Saint Gregory of Nazianzus.
The inscription can also be found in the following places:
When the sentence is rendered in capital letters, as would be usual for an inscription, all the letters are vertically symmetrical except for the Ν. As a result, if the N is stylized Ͷ in the right half, the sentence is not only a palindrome but also a mirror ambigram.

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