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description: Globular aryballos with nonsense inscription, from the Delion
catalogue number: 1069
LSAG reference: 305.25a.S465
date: c. 650 ?
object type: Aryballos
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Paros
    publications:
Jeffery, LSAG pp. 126 n1
Payne, Protokorinthische Vasenmalerei pp. 20
Dunbabin, T.J., The Western Greeks pp. 460, 466
Rubensohn, Das Delion von Paros pp. 122-4

    archival material:
    local script: Paros
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: single line  writing orientation:other
writing direction:left > & < right  number of characters:12 comments:
Several characters unclear.

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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:

θεοςφμ
ιμϝ̣/ε̣ θεομφς

    translation:

not available