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browsing: glyph used as "sigma" item number: 4 of 314 Eretria back to browse list new search/browse     photographs: not available     description: Base for a bronze bull, made by Philesios and dedicated by the Eretrians at Olympia catalogue number: 101 LSAG reference: 88.19 date: c. 480 ? object type: Base region: CG sub-region: Euboia archaeological context: Olympia     publications: Roehl, H., IGA no. 373 Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 170 Olympia vol. 5 no. 248 SGDI no. 5305 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 76 no. 7 DGE no. 802 Olympia Museum no. 118     archival material: not available     local script: Eretria inscription script analysis: writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal? writing direction:left >  number of characters:26 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: Φιλε̅σιος εποιε. Ερετριες το̅ι Δι.     translation: not available