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Naxos (Cyclades)
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description: Inscribed ring-aryballos from Delos
catalogue number: 1041
LSAG reference: 304.04
date: 7th century
object type: Aryballos
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Delos
    publications:
Délos vol. 17 pp. 124
ID no. 32b
Gallet de Santerre, Délos primitive et archaique (1958) pp. 323

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Naxos (Cyclades)
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: bottom right  writing orientation:other
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:13 comments:
Tall and narrow lettering

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α β γ δ ε Digamma ζ α η Heta θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π M Koppa ρ σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω Sampi punct.

    transcription:

[- - -]λη μ' εδο̅κεν [- - -]
[- - -]ιο̅νι.

    translation:

not available