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description: Altar of Zeus Elasteros, Paros
catalogue number: 1081
LSAG reference: 305.35
date: c. 500 to 480 ?
object type: Altar
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Paros
    publications:
IG vol. XII.5 no. 1027
SGDI vol. 4 no. 857
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 60 no. 7
DGE no. 772
Kontoleon, AE (1948-1949) pp. 2 ff
EG vol. 1

    archival material:
    local script: Paros
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: top left  writing orientation:horizontal?
writing direction:left >  number of characters:44

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:

Βομως Διως̣ Ε̣[λαστε]-
ρω τον απω Μ[α]ν̣δρω-
θεμιως· μελιτι
σπενδεται.

    translation:

not available