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description: Inscription of the builder Ason
catalogue number: 1072
LSAG reference: 305.28
date: c. 550 ?
object type: Stele
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Paros
    publications:
IG vol. xii.5 no. 252
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 16
SGDI no. 5432
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 59 no. 3
Kern, O., Inscriptiones Graecae
DGE no. 770
EG vol. 1

    archival material:
    local script: Paros
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:48 comments:
Several characers 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:

Ασον τεσε-
ρα και εβδω-
Ϙωντωτης εο-
ν τας ωικιας ε-
χσεπωιησεν.

    translation:

not available