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Naxos (Cyclades)
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description: Bronze statuette dedicated to Apollo by Deinagoras
catalogue number: 1049
LSAG reference: 304.11
date: c. 525 to 500
object type: Statuette
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Naxos
    publications:
IG vol. xii.5 no. 42
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 26a
SGDI no. 5420
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 65 no. 3
DGE no. 759
Neugebauer, Kat. Bronz. Berlin vol. 1 (1931) pp. 90 ff no. 192
Friedlaender, P., Hoffleit, H., Epigrammata no. 14b
Buschor, Frühgriech. Jünglinge (1950) pp. 118 f
CEG no. 405

    archival material:
not available
    local script: Naxos (Cyclades)
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:neutral
writing direction:left >  number of characters:40 comments:
Caption; several letters 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 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:

Δειναγορ-
ης μ'ανεθε̅κεν ε-
κηβολο̅ι Α-
πολλο̅νι δεκατ[ην].

    translation:

not available