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description: Base for a statue dedicated by Demokydes and Telestodike, Paros
catalogue number: 1078
LSAG reference: 305.34
date: c. 500 ?
object type: Base
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Paros
    publications:
IG vol. xii.5 no. 215
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 17
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 61 no. 10
DGE no. 771
SGDI no. 5430
Karouzos, JdI vol. 52 (1937) pp. 558, 575
CEG no. 414

    archival material:
    local script: Paros
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal?
writing direction:left >  number of characters:100

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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:

Δημωκυδης τωδ' αγαλμα Τε-
λεστωδικη τ' απωκωινον
ευχσαμενω̣ι στησαν παρ̣-
θενοι Αρτεμιδι
σεμνοι ενι ζαπεδοι κω-
ρηι Διως αιγιωχωιω,
τον γενεην Βιωτων τ'α-
υχσ' εν απημωσυνηι.

    translation:

not available