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browsing: glyph used as "mu" item number: 52 of 62 Naxos (Cyclades) back to browse list new search/browse     photographs:     description: Inscribed base of a colossus dedicated by the Naxians on Delos catalogue number: 1047 LSAG reference: 304.10 date: c. 600 to 575 object type: Base region: AI sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean) archaeological context: Delos     publications: IG vol. xii.5.2 pp. xxv Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 pp. 27 SGDI no. 5421 Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 66 no. 4 DGE no. 760 ID no. 4 Richter, G.M.A., Kouroi no. 13 Homann-Wedeking, Die Anfänge no. 56 Guarducci, Epigraphica vol. 4 (1942) pp. 155 ff Gallet de Santerre, Délos primitive et archaique (1958) pp. 242 CEG no. 401     archival material:     local script: Naxos (Cyclades) inscription script analysis: writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:horizontal writing direction:left >  number of characters:31 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: [τ]ο αϝυτο λιθο εμι ανδριας και το σφελας.     translation: not available