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description:
Bronze aryballos with dedication to Menelaos and Helen, from the Menelaion
Object c. 650
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catalogue number: 507
LSAG reference: 198.03a.S446
date: c. 600 ?
object type:
Aryballos
region: PL
sub-region: Lakonia
archaeological context: Menelaion
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publications:
Sparta Museum
no. M 100
Catling and Cavanagh,
Kadmos
vol. 15
(1976)
pp. 147-52
CAH
vol. 3
edition 2
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archival material:
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local script:
Lakonia
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line writing orientation:other
writing direction:Schlangenschrift (false boustr.) number of characters:38
comments: Schlangenschrift from left; single line of text following the surface of the aryballos almost in a spiral. Punctuation employed.
Letter forms found in this inscription are listed below. Click on a glyph to browse other inscriptions in which it also appears.
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transcription:
Δεινι[ς] ) ταδ' ανεθε̅κε ) χαρι̣[.] ) ϝε̣λ̣ε̣ν̣α̣ι̣ ) Μενελαϝο̣ )
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translation:
not available
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