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browsing: archaeological context = Brentesion item number: 1 of 2 Non-Greek Places back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Kerykeion from Brentesion (Messapic) catalogue number: 1009 LSAG reference: 284.13 date: c. 443 - 433 ? object type: Herald's staff region: WC sub-region: Doric Colonies, Italy archaeological context: Brentesion     publications: IG vol. xiv no. 672 Kubitschek, Ö.Jh. vol. 10 (1907) pp. 129 Whatmough, Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy vol. 2 (1933) no. 514,537 Crome, AM vol. 63 (1938) pp. 118 Wuilleumier, Tarente pp. 198 De Simone, Arch. Class. vol. 8 (1956) pp. 15 ff     archival material:     local script: Non-Greek Places inscription script analysis: not available     transcription: Ionic: δαμοσιον Θουριων. "probably the Lakonian-Messapic script of a hellenized native": δαμοσιον Βρενδεσ̣ινο̅ν     translation: not available