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description: Fragment of a column bearing a legal text, from Paros
catalogue number: 1070
LSAG reference: 305.26
date: c. 600 to 550 ?
object type: Column
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Paros
    publications:
IG vol. xii.5 no. 105
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 59 no. 1


    archival material:
    local script: Paros
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top right  writing orientation:horizontal?
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:31 comments:
Several characters 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:

[- - -]τ̣ωσω[- - -]
[- - -]ο η γης Π̣[αριης?- - -]
[- - -]ι κατασ[- - -]
[- - -]ν ||| ον[- - -]
[- - -]ω̣ιας δε̣̅[- - -]
[- - -] νηπ[ωινει τεθνατο? - - -]
[- - -]ρο̣τ̣[- - -].

    translation:

not available