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browsing: glyph used as "pi" item number: 1 of 371 Attica back to browse list new search/browse     photographs:     description: Graffito on a late Geometric oinochoe from a grave in Athens. catalogue number: 1 LSAG reference: 76.01 date: c. 725 object type: Oinochoe region: CG sub-region: Attica archaeological context: Athens     publications: Furtwaengler, AM vol. 6 (1881) pp. 106ff IG vol. i edition 2 no. 919 SEG vol. 3 no. 51 Young, R.S., Hesperia Suppl. vol. 2 (1939) pp. 228 Kirchner, J., IIA edition 2 (1948) no. 1 CEG vol. 1 no. 432 SEG vol. 30 no. 46 IG vol. i edition 3 no. fictile     archival material: not available     local script: Attica inscription script analysis: writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:horizontal writing direction:< right  number of characters:46 comments: Probably two inscriptions: "possibly another, worse writer tried his hand here" (LSAG, 68). Several characters are unclear. Letter forms found in this inscription are listed below. Click on a glyph to browse other inscriptions in which it also appears. α β γ δ ε ζ α η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π M ρ σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω punct.     transcription: hος νυν ορχε̅στο̅ν παντο̅ν αταλο̅τατα παιζει, τοτοδ̣εκλ̣λ̣μ̣ι̣ν (το τοδε κλ{μ}μ{ν}ν?).     translation: not available