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description: Part of a stele bearing a prohibition
catalogue number: 1077
LSAG reference: 305.33
date: c. 525 to 500?
object type: Stele
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Paros
    publications:
IG vol. xii.5 no. 150
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 60 no. 4


    archival material:
    local script: Paros
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top right  writing orientation:horizontal?
writing direction:boustrophedon  number of characters:14 comments:
Partly stoichedon. Lettering neat and well spaced.

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:

[?Μη- - -]ηστ̣[ο?]
εσο το-
ν̣ λιθ-
ον [- - -]

    translation:

not available