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description: Graffiti names on the town wall, Karthaia
catalogue number: 1104
LSAG reference: 306.47
date: c. 475 to 450 ?
object type: Wall
region: AI
sub-region: Ionic Is. (Cen. & N. Aegean)
archaeological context: Karthaia
    publications:
IG vol. xii.5 no. 566
Roberts, E.S., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy vol. 1 no. 31b
SGDI vol. 4 no. 855
Roehl, H., Imagines Inscriptionum Graecarum antiquissimarum edition 3 pp. 57 no. 3
DGE no. 764

    archival material:
    local script: Keos
inscription script analysis:
writing starting point: uncertain  writing orientation:horizontal?
writing direction:left >  number of characters:31

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:

Δρλιος
Ευκαιρος
Σχενηρετος (=Χσενηρετος)
Ευδημος.

    translation:

not available