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description: Epitaph of Deidamas on a rock at Aigiale
catalogue number: 1058
LSAG reference: 304.15
date: c. 700 to 650 ?
object type: Rock
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Aigiale
    publications:
IG vol. xii.7 no. 442
SGDI no. 5351
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 27 no. 30
Peek, W., Griechische Versinschriften vol. i no. 1413
CEG no. 152

    archival material:
    local script: Amorgos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top right  writing orientation:
writing direction:< right  number of characters:27

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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:

Δηιδαμανι
Πυγμας ο πατε̅ρ [τ]ονδ' οιϙ[ον ετευhσεν?].

    translation:

not available